High severity · published Apr 14, 2025
CVE-2025-2563
User Registration & Membership < 4.1.2- Unauthenticated Privilege Escalation
8.1
CVSS
49.1%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
The User Registration & Membership WordPress plugin before 4.1.2 does not prevent users to set their account role when the Membership Addon is enabled, leading to a privilege escalation issue and allowing unauthenticated users to gain admin privileges
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
High
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)49.1% · higher than 99% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
UR
User Registration & Membership ·
before 4.1.2 · source: vendor, NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-2563
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-2563
Exploit
https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/2c0f62a1-9510-4f90-a297-17634e6c8b75/
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