CVE-2025-4607

CRITICAL

PSW Front-end Login & Registration <1.12 - Privilege Escalation

Title source: llm

Description

The PSW Front-end Login & Registration plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Privilege Escalation in all versions up to, and including, 1.12 via the customer_registration() function. This is due to the use of a weak, low-entropy OTP mechanism in the forget() function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to initiate a password reset for any user, including administrators, and elevate their privileges for full site takeover.

References (5)

[Product] https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/psw-login-and-registration/trunk/public/class-prositegeneralfeatures-public.php#L731

[Product] https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/psw-login-and-registration/trunk/public/class-prositegeneralfeatures-public.php#L323

[Product] https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/psw-login-and-registration/trunk/public/class-prositegeneralfeatures-public.php#L493

[Product] https://wordpress.org/plugins/psw-login-and-registration/#developers

[Third Party Advisory] https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/a2d6e595-0682-4a41-a432-afbcb50144e8?source=cve

Scores

CVSS v3 9.8

EPSS 0.0106

EPSS Percentile 77.8%

Attack Vector NETWORK

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment

Exploitation none

Automatable yes

Technical Impact total

Details

CWE

CWE-330

Status published

Products (1)

empoweringprowebsite/PSW Front-end Login & Registration < 1.12

Published May 31, 2025

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026