User Registration & Membership: Privilege escalation or authentication bypass
User Registration & Membership is affected by privilege escalation or authentication bypass. The vulnerable path is reachable without authentication. A successful request can grant permissions or access that the caller should not possess.
- Component
- User Registration & Membership
- Plugin slug
user-registration- Affected
- See vendor advisory
- Safe version
- See mitigation notes
- Published
- Apr 14, 2025
- Weakness
- NVD-CWE-noinfo
This CVE was published Apr 14, 2025 and is one of 39 known issues for this plugin.
Update, patch or deactivate.
Update User Registration & Membership to a release outside the affected range, or disable and remove it until a fixed version is available.
No confirmed safe version is listed. Consider a vendor-supported patch or temporarily restricting the affected functionality while you assess the risk.
Deactivate only when warranted by your risk profile, or when advised by your hosting provider in the limited circumstances where the vulnerability cannot otherwise be mitigated. If you’re unsure which action is appropriate, contact Fused or your hosting provider for guidance.
Technical 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
CVE / CNA vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H