What is CVE-2024-1290?

CVE-2024-1290 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Strategy11 User Registration Forms, classified under CWE-269 IMPROPER PRIVILEGE MANAGEMENT. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2024-03-11.

How severe is CVE-2024-1290?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.

Is CVE-2024-1290 known to be exploited?

1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

Vulnerability in Strategy11 User Registration Forms

CVE-2024-1290

The User Registration WordPress plugin before 2.12 does not prevent users with at least the contributor role from rendering sensitive shortcodes, allowing them to generate, and leak, valid password reset URLs, which they can use to take over any accounts.

Published 2024-03-11 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 6.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.006 (44.1th percentile), scored 2026-09-30.

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 44th percentile — 44.1% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.006 · newest: 0.006 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Strategy11 User Registration Forms
User Registration — versions 0

Public proof-of-concept exploits

20142995/nuclei-templates

References

wpscan.com/vulnerability/a60187d4-9491-435a-bc36-8dd348a1ffa3/ (Exploit, technical-description, Third Party Advisory, exploit, vdb-entry)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2024-1290?: CVE-2024-1290 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Strategy11 User Registration Forms, classified under CWE-269 IMPROPER PRIVILEGE MANAGEMENT. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2024-03-11.
How severe is CVE-2024-1290?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.
Is CVE-2024-1290 known to be exploited?: 1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.