CVE-2025-2563User Registration & Membership < 4.1.2- Unauthenticated Privilege Escalation
- 8.1HighCVSS base score
- 49.1%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 1.1% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- 2Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
Description
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
Public exploit
An exploit or proof of concept is public: anyone can try it against an unpatched system. The public collections list a Metasploit module and a Nuclei template for it. A reference of the record is tagged as an exploit. CISA's SSVC rates its exploitation: a proof of concept is public.
Show the exploits3
Metasploit modules1 module
- WP User Registration and Membership Unauthenticated Privilege Escalation (CVE-2025-2563) (Metasploit module) (opens in a new tab)
exploit/multi/http/wp_user_registration_membership_escalationRank excellentdisclosed 24 Mar 2025
Nuclei templates1 template
- User Registration & Membership <= 4.1.1 - Unauthenticated Privilege Escalation (Nuclei template) (opens in a new tab)
http/cves/2025/CVE-2025-2563.yamlSeverity critical
References tagged exploit1 reference
- https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/2c0f62a1-9510-4f90-a297-17634e6c8b75/ (opens in a new tab)exploitvdb-entrytechnical-description
Modules, templates and exploits as listed by the Metasploit Framework (BSD-3-Clause), ProjectDiscovery's Nuclei templates (MIT) and the Exploit Database (GPLv2), read once a day. Where the data comes from
Timeline
ID reserved
By WPScan
- 25 days later
· 25 days later
Published
- 5 months later
· 5 months later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| CISA-ADPADP (enrichment) | 3.1 | High8.1 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
| NVDNVD · Analyzed | 3.1 | High8.1 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 49.1% · top 1.1% of all CVEs (14 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: poc · Automatable: no · Technical impact: total
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 8.1.
Affected products
Unknown · User Registration & Membership
- affected < 4.1.2
References
References1
- https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/2c0f62a1-9510-4f90-a297-17634e6c8b75/ (opens in a new tab)exploitvdb-entrytechnical-description
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2025-10866 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-2025-2563)Record last updated .