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CVE-2025-3292: User Registration & Membership – Custom Registration Form, Login Form, and User Profile <= 4.1.3 - Insecure Direct Object Reference to Authenticated (Subscriber+) User Password Update

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 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: 2025-04-12 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-639

Description

The User Registration & Membership – Custom Registration Form, Login Form, and User Profile plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Insecure Direct Object Reference in all versions up to, and including, 4.1.3 via the user_registration_update_profile_details() due to missing validation on the 'user_id' user controlled key. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to update other user's passwords, if they have access to the user ID and email.

Affected products

• User Registration & Membership: before 4.1.3 — fixed in 4.1.3

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: User Registration & Membership 4.1.3. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/user-registration/tags/4.1.3/includes/class-ur-ajax.php#L323
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3268617/user-registration/trunk/includes/class-ur-ajax.php
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/59a63cd8-9d33-4a2c-a499-5b1ee38c07d6?source=cve

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