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CVE-2025-4607: PSW Front-end Login & Registration <= 1.12 - Insufficiently Random Values to Unauthenticated Account Takeover/Privilege Escalation via customer_registration Function

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2025-05-31 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-330

Description

The PSW Front-end Login & Registration plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Privilege Escalation in all versions up to, and including, 1.12 via the customer_registration() function. This is due to the use of a weak, low-entropy OTP mechanism in the forget() function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to initiate a password reset for any user, including administrators, and elevate their privileges for full site takeover.

Affected products

• empoweringprowebsite PSW Front-end Login & Registration: through 1.12

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/psw-login-and-registration/trunk/public/class-prositegeneralfeatures-public.php#L323
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/psw-login-and-registration/trunk/public/class-prositegeneralfeatures-public.php#L493
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/psw-login-and-registration/trunk/public/class-prositegeneralfeatures-public.php#L731
• https://wordpress.org/plugins/psw-login-and-registration/#developers
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/a2d6e595-0682-4a41-a432-afbcb50144e8?source=cve

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