What’s Vulnerable › Vulnerabilities

CVE-2025-12770: New User Approve <= 3.0.9 - Unauthenticated Sensitive Information Disclosure via Type Juggling

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.3 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2025-11-19 · updated 2026-10-18
• Weakness: CWE-200

Description

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.

Affected products

• saadiqbal New User Approve: through 3.0.9

References

• 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
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/3f1cf77a-64b4-405b-adcb-ef16d9e82ab2?source=cve

Get alerted when CVE-2025-12770 or the next vulnerability affects your stack