Vulnerabilites related to nmedia - Simple User Registration
CVE-2025-4334 (GCVE-0-2025-4334)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-06-26 02:06
Modified
2025-06-27 14:51
Severity ?
CWE
  • CWE-269 - Improper Privilege Management
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.
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
nmedia Simple User Registration Version: *    6.3
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