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CVE-2025-4334 (GCVE-0-2025-4334)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-06-26 02:06 – Updated: 2025-06-27 14:51

Title

Simple User Registration <= 6.3 - Unauthenticated Privilege Escalation

Summary

The Simple User Registration plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Privilege Escalation in all versions up to, and including, 6.3. This is due to insufficient restrictions on user meta values that can be supplied during registration. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to register as an administrator.

Severity ?

9.8 (Critical)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CWE

CWE-269 - Improper Privilege Management

Assigner

Wordfence

References

URL

Tags

	https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabil…
	https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-reg…

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	nmedia	Simple User Registration	Affected: * , ≤ 6.3 (semver)

Credits

Cheng Liu

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FKIE_CVE-2025-4334

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2025-06-26 02:15 - Updated: 2025-07-09 17:53

Severity ?

9.8 (Critical) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Summary

References

	URL	Tags
	security@wordfence.com	https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-registration/trunk/inc/classes/class.register.php#L135	Product
	security@wordfence.com	https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/c211e0c0-3086-43d2-853c-489f9c42b0ab?source=cve	Third Party Advisory

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	najeebmedia	simple_user_registration	*

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GHSA-6HWF-C64W-JXC6

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2025-06-26 21:31 – Updated: 2025-06-26 21:31

Details

Severity ?

9.8 (Critical)


                  
                    CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Show details on source website

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      "type": "CVSS_V3"
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Sightings

Author	Source	Type	Date

Nomenclature

Seen: The vulnerability was mentioned, discussed, or observed by the user.
Confirmed: The vulnerability has been validated from an analyst's perspective.
Published Proof of Concept: A public proof of concept is available for this vulnerability.
Exploited: The vulnerability was observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.

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CVE-2025-4334 (GCVE-0-2025-4334)

FKIE_CVE-2025-4334

GHSA-6HWF-C64W-JXC6

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