CVE-2025-2563

User Registration & Membership < 4.1.2- Unauthenticated Privilege Escalation

HIGH
8.1
CVSS Score
Published: April 14, 2025 at 06:00 AM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 09:07 AM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorUser Registration & Membership

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Severity
HIGH8.1
Exploit prediction
EPSS 49%
SSVC
PoC

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

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

v < 4.1.2v < 5.1.2
Affected range stops below 4.1.2, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement
Affected range stops below 5.1.2, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement

Remediation

No guide yet

No remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet, and no fixed version or vendor advisory is recorded against it.

References (1)

ExploitVDB EntryTechnical DescriptionThird Party Advisory
https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/2c0f62a1-9510-4f90-a297-17634e6c8b75/

SSVC — Action Prioritization

SSVCPoCNot automatableTotal impact

SSVC signals action urgency (what to patch first), separate from CVSS which measures severity.

CVSS

8.1HIGHCISA-ADP
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Complexity
HIGH
Privileges
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality
HIGH
Integrity
HIGH
Availability
HIGH
Vector?

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CWE
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