CVE-2025-2563
User Registration & Membership < 4.1.2- Unauthenticated Privilege Escalation
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
Attack profile
How easy it is to exploit
- Attack vector
- Network
- Complexity
- High
- Privileges needed
- None
- User interaction
- None
What an attacker can affect
- Confidentiality
- High
- Integrity
- High
- Availability
- High
Exploit likelihood
What each source reports
CVE List Score used
User Registration & Membership < 4.1.2- Unauthenticated Privilege Escalation
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
- Record
CVE-2025-2563- CVSS 3.1
- 8.1 High
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H - Updated
- 2026-11-02
EUVDEUVD-2025-10866
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
- Record
EUVD-2025-10866- CVSS 3.1
- 8.1 High
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H - Updated
- 2026-11-02
GitHub AdvisoriesGHSA-jxh5-f52q-732j
The User Registration & Membership WordPress plugin before 4.1.2 does not prevent users to set...
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
- Record
GHSA-jxh5-f52q-732j- CVSS 3.1
- 8.1 High
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H - Updated
- 2026-11-02
NVD
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
- Record
CVE-2025-2563- CVSS 3.1
- 8.1 High
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H - Updated
- 2026-11-02
Affected products
Public exploits
Links only. Every CVE stores no exploit code.
| Source | Link | Date |
|---|---|---|
| Metasploit | WP User Registration and Membership Unauthenticated Privilege Escalation (CVE-2025-2563) | 2025-03-24 |
| Nuclei | User Registration & Membership <= 4.1.1 - Unauthenticated Privilege Escalation | |
| PoC in GitHub | 0axz-tools/CVE-2025-2563-POC | 2026-02-18 |
| PoC in GitHub | Nxploited/CVE-2025-2563 | 2026-04-18 |
| PoC in GitHub | dokter69/CVE-2025-2563 | 2026-04-20 |
| PoC in GitHub | ubaydev/CVE-2025-2563 | 2025-03-29 |
History
| Recorded | Changed | Sources |
|---|---|---|
| first indexed | CVE List, EUVD, GitHub Advisories, Metasploit, Nuclei, NVD, PoC in GitHub |
Dates are when Every CVE recorded each change. Upstream dates may differ.
In short
CVE-2025-2563 is a high vulnerability (CVSS 8.1) in Unknown User Registration & Membership, published April 14, 2025. Public exploit code exists. EPSS puts the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days at 49.1%, the 98th percentile. No source names a fixed version.