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
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.
References
security@wordfence.comhttps://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-registration/trunk/inc/classes/class.register.php#L135Product
security@wordfence.comhttps://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/c211e0c0-3086-43d2-853c-489f9c42b0ab?source=cveThird Party Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
najeebmedia simple_user_registration *
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  "id": "CVE-2025-4334",
  "lastModified": "2025-07-09T17:53:13.627",
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