VULNERABILITY

WordPress Plugin: user-registration: CVE-2025-2563: Improper Privilege Management

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WordPress Plugin: user-registration: CVE-2025-2563: Improper Privilege Management

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
03/24/2025
Created
05/16/2025
Added
05/15/2025
Modified
05/15/2025

Description

The User Registration and Membership plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation in versions up to, and including, 4.1.1. This is due to insufficient restrictions on role type in the 'prepare_members_data()' function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to create new user accounts with the 'administrator'' role.

Solution(s)

  • user-registration-plugin-cve-2025-2563

References

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