Vulnerability · Published Apr 14, 2025 · Assigned by WPScan

CVE-2025-2563User Registration & Membership < 4.1.2- Unauthenticated Privilege Escalation

High 8.1

In plain English

A high-severity security flaw in User Registration & Membership from Unknown. Proof-of-concept exploit code is public. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 49.1% (higher than 99% of all known vulnerabilities). Ready-made attack tooling exists: Metasploit, Nuclei, public proof-of-concept code.

Severity (CVSS 3.1)8.1High

Exploit odds (30 days)49.1%top 1.1% of all CVEs

Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: poc

Attack tooling3Metasploit, Nuclei, Public PoC

Official 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

Affected products (as reported)

Vendor	Product	Versions
Unknown	User Registration & Membership	0 – before 4.1.2

References

https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/2c0f62a1-9510-4f90-a297-17634e6c8b75/ exploit, vdb-entry, technical-description