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CVE-2025-2563: User Registration & Membership < 4.1.2- Unauthenticated Privilege Escalation
- Severity: high (CVSS 8.1 v3.1)
- Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
- EPSS: 49.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
- Public exploit or detection template: yes
- Published: 2025-04-14 · updated 2026-06-17
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
- User Registration & Membership: before 4.1.2; before 5.1.2 — fixed in 4.1.2, 5.1.2
How to fix
Upgrade to a fixed version: User Registration & Membership 4.1.2, 5.1.2. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.
References
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