CVE-2025-2563: Wpeverest User Registration & Membership

High severity, CVSS 8.1. EPSS: 48.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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

Affected products

• Wpeverest User Registration & Membership: before 4.1.2 (fixed in 4.1.2); before 5.1.2 (fixed in 5.1.2)

Published 2025-04-14. Last modified 2026-06-17.