New User Approve <= 3.0.9 - Unauthenticated Sensitive Information Disclosure via Type Juggling
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Network
- Privileges required
- None
- User interaction
- None
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Impact type
- Information disclosure
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- Low · None · None
- Fix status
- No fix listed
Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CNA. Fix status from CNA. Impact type from CWE-200.
Summary
The New User Approve plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized data disclosure in all versions up to, and including, 3.0.9 due to insufficient API key validation using loose equality comparison. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to retrieve personally identifiable information (PII), including usernames and email addresses of users with various approval statuses via the Zapier REST API endpoints, by exploiting PHP type juggling with the api_key parameter set to "0" on sites where the Zapier API key has not been configured.
Why it matters now
SSVC decision points
CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3
- Exploitation
- None
- Automatable
- Yes
- Technical impact
- Partial
The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.
Affected products
Remediation
No fixed version listed by the sources yet.
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2025-12770
- 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-xhjc-3h89-4qhf
References
Other 4
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/3f1cf77a-64b4-405b-adcb-ef16d9e82ab2?source=cve
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/new-user-approve/tags/3.0.9/includes/zapier/includes/rest-api.php#L104
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/new-user-approve/tags/3.0.9/includes/zapier/includes/rest-api.php#L40
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/new-user-approve/trunk/includes/zapier/includes/rest-api.php#L104
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Sources
- CVE-2025-12770 · CVE Program
- CVE-2025-12770 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-xhjc-3h89-4qhf · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
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