Vulnerability in User Registration & Membership

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 privilege escalation issue and allowing unauthenticated users to gain adm…

EPSS: 0.881 (99.5th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

  • Unknown User Registration & Membership — versions 0

Public proof-of-concept exploits

References

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2025-2563?
CVE-2025-2563 is a vulnerability in User Registration & Membership, classified under CWE-639 AUTHORIZATION BYPASS THROUGH USER-CONTROLLED KEY. Published 2025-04-14.
Is CVE-2025-2563 known to be exploited?
12 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.