CVE-2025-2563: User Registration & Membership < 4.1.2- Unauthenticated Privilege Escalation

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

Classification

CVE ID: CVE-2025-2563

Problem Types

CWE-269 Improper Privilege Management

Affected Products

Vendor: Unknown

Product: User Registration & Membership

Nuclei Template

http/cves/2025/CVE-2025-2563.yaml

Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)

EPSS Score: 11.25% (probability of being exploited)

EPSS Percentile: 93.09% (scored less or equal to compared to others)

EPSS Date: 2025-04-16 (when was this score calculated)

References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-2563
https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/2c0f62a1-9510-4f90-a297-17634e6c8b75/

Timeline