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TI-2025-02232 Aliases CVE-2025-2563GHSA-jxh5-f52q-732j

User Registration & Membership < 4.1.2- Unauthenticated Privilege Escalation

Priority HIGH 70Published · Updated

Key facts

Attack vector
Network
Privileges required
None
User interaction
None
Attack complexity
High
Impact type
—
Confidentiality · integrity · availability
High · High · High
Fix status
Fixed

Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CISA ADP. Fix status from CNA.

Summary

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

Why it matters now

Exploitation Proof of concept CISA SSVC · not in CISA KEV
EPSS 0.49084 98th percentileScored 2026-11-07
Public exploit Yes 1 exploit referenceTagged by the CNA and NVD
Fix Fixed User Registration & Membership (Unknown): 4.1.2

SSVC decision points

CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3

Exploitation
Poc
Automatable
No
Technical impact
Total

The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versionsFixed inStatusSource
UnknownUser Registration & Membershipbefore 4.1.24.1.2Patch availableCNA
  • User Registration & Membership VendorUnknown Affected before 4.1.2 Fixed in 4.1.2 Patch available CNA

CPE configurations NVD · 2

CPEVersionsRoleVendor
cpe:2.3:a:wpeverest:user_registration_\&_membership:*:*:*:*:free:wordpress:*:*before 4.1.2Vulnerablewpeverest
cpe:2.3:a:wpeverest:user_registration_\&_membership:*:*:*:*:pro:wordpress:*:*before 5.1.2Vulnerablewpeverest
  • cpe:2.3:a:wpeverest:user_registration_\&_membership:*:*:*:*:free:wordpress:*:* Versions before 4.1.2 Vulnerable ·wpeverest
  • cpe:2.3:a:wpeverest:user_registration_\&_membership:*:*:*:*:pro:wordpress:*:* Versions before 5.1.2 Vulnerable ·wpeverest

Remediation

  • Fix · CNA User Registration & Membership (Unknown) Fixed in 4.1.2

Timeline

  1. 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2025-2563
  2. 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-jxh5-f52q-732j

References

Exploit 1

  • TI-2025-02262 User Registration & Membership < 4.1.3 - Authentication Bypass CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.1
  • TI-2023-12191 WordPress User Registration plugin <= 2.3.2.1 - Authenticated PHP Object Injection vulnerability CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.8
  • TI-2025-26142 WordPress User Registration plugin < 4.2.0 - Reflected Cross Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.1
  • TI-2025-02874 Authorization bypass in wpeverest User Registration & Membership – Free & Paid… CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 5.3
  • TI-2024-01599 Cross-site scripting in wpeverest User Registration & Membership – Free & Paid… CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 6.1
  • TI-2025-22169 WordPress User Registration plugin <= 4.0.3 - Cross Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 5.9
See all 7 →

Sources

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