- 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
- Source
- contact@wpscan.com
- NVD status
- Analyzed
- Products
- user_registration_\&_membership
CVSS 3.1
- Type
- Secondary
- Base score
- 8.1
- Impact score
- 5.9
- Exploitability score
- 2.2
- Vector string
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Severity
- HIGH
- Hype score
- Not currently trending
https://t.co/9T35ezskJq CVE-2025-2563 | 60K #CyberSecurity #Hacking #wordpress #Exploit
@Nxploited
18 Feb 2026
86 Impressions
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🚨 CVE-2025-2563 🚨 I have developed a Metasploit module to exploit an unauthenticated privilege escalation in the WordPress User Registration & Membership plugin (Free < 4.1.2, Pro < 5.1.2) [+70k installs]. PR: https://t.co/bXHNmhYmZT https://t.co/aWyviLAFt6
@Chocapikk_
9 May 2025
10060 Impressions
39 Retweets
187 Likes
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CVE-2025-2563 04/14/2025 06:15:16 AM BaseSeverity: HIGH The User Registration & Membership WordPress plugin before 4.1.2 does not prevent users to set their account role when the Membership Addon is enable... https://t.co/QUub3XKaI3
@CVETracker
14 Apr 2025
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CVE-2025-2563 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 pr… https://t.co/VuXqqxXcCr
@CVEnew
14 Apr 2025
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🚨 CVE-2025-2563 - critical 🚨 User Registration & Membership <= 4.1.1 - Unauthenticated Privilege Escalation > The User Registration & Membership plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege es... 👾 https://t.co/9YwtRaBIBG @pdnuclei #Nuc...
@pdnuclei_bot
7 Apr 2025
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🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨 Uma falha crítica de segurança foi descoberta no plugin WordPress “User Registration & Membership”, amplamente utilizado em sites com funcionalidades de cadastro e controle de acesso. Catalogada como CVE-2025-2563 e com pontuação CVSS de 9.8, a vulnerabilidade
@MarcelloBRUS
29 Mar 2025
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Details about the User Registration & Membership <= 4.1.1 - Unauthenticated Privilege Escalation - CVE-2025-2563: https://t.co/swFyg8XC7j #WordPress #PluginSecurity #UpdateNow
@the_pesc
29 Mar 2025
17 Impressions
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WordPress Plugin CVE-2025-2563 Scores 9.8, Threatens Thousands of Membership Sites A critical security vulnerability has been discovered in the “User Registration & Membership” WordPress plugin. https://t.co/DpP9n5DCnt
@the_yellow_fall
27 Mar 2025
504 Impressions
3 Retweets
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