{"id":"CVE-2025-4607","state":"PUBLISHED","title":"PSW Front-end Login & Registration <= 1.12 - Insufficiently Random Values to Unauthenticated Account Takeover/Privilege Escalation via customer_registration Function","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.","publishedAt":"2025-05-31T06:40:56.485Z","updatedAt":"2026-04-08T17:12:43.620Z","severity":{"score":9.8,"label":"Critical","version":"3.1","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H","source":"Wordfence"},"assigner":"Wordfence","products":["empoweringprowebsite PSW Front-end Login & Registration"],"affected":[{"vendor":"empoweringprowebsite","product":"PSW Front-end Login & Registration","defaultStatus":"unaffected","versions":[{"version":"0","status":"affected","lessThanOrEqual":"1.12","versionType":"semver"}]}],"references":["https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/a2d6e595-0682-4a41-a432-afbcb50144e8?source=cve","https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/psw-login-and-registration/trunk/public/class-prositegeneralfeatures-public.php#L493","https://wordpress.org/plugins/psw-login-and-registration/#developers","https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/psw-login-and-registration/trunk/public/class-prositegeneralfeatures-public.php#L731","https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/psw-login-and-registration/trunk/public/class-prositegeneralfeatures-public.php#L323"],"weaknesses":["CWE-330"],"ingestedAt":"2026-10-29T20:09:23.771Z","source":{"repository":"CVEProject/cvelistV5","path":"cves/2025/4xxx/CVE-2025-4607.json","commit":"556c9d3a8cd17e218bb8e452ba7cd619a384ff47"},"raw":{"dataType":"CVE_RECORD","dataVersion":"5.2","cveMetadata":{"cveId":"CVE-2025-4607","state":"PUBLISHED","datePublished":"2025-05-31T06:40:56.485Z","dateUpdated":"2026-04-08T17:12:43.620Z","assignerShortName":"Wordfence","assignerOrgId":"b15e7b5b-3da4-40ae-a43c-f7aa60e62599","dateReserved":"2025-05-12T19:29:25.486Z"},"containers":{"cna":{"title":"PSW Front-end Login & Registration <= 1.12 - Insufficiently Random Values to Unauthenticated Account Takeover/Privilege Escalation via customer_registration Function","descriptions":[{"lang":"en","value":"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."}],"affected":[{"vendor":"empoweringprowebsite","product":"PSW Front-end Login & Registration","defaultStatus":"unaffected","versions":[{"version":"0","status":"affected","lessThanOrEqual":"1.12","versionType":"semver"}]}],"references":[{"url":"https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/a2d6e595-0682-4a41-a432-afbcb50144e8?source=cve"},{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/psw-login-and-registration/trunk/public/class-prositegeneralfeatures-public.php#L493"},{"url":"https://wordpress.org/plugins/psw-login-and-registration/#developers"},{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/psw-login-and-registration/trunk/public/class-prositegeneralfeatures-public.php#L731"},{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/psw-login-and-registration/trunk/public/class-prositegeneralfeatures-public.php#L323"}],"metrics":[{"cvssV3_1":{"version":"3.1","vectorString":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H","baseScore":9.8,"baseSeverity":"CRITICAL"}}],"problemTypes":[{"descriptions":[{"cweId":"CWE-330","lang":"en","description":"CWE-330 Use of Insufficiently Random Values","type":"CWE"}]}],"providerMetadata":{"shortName":"Wordfence","orgId":"b15e7b5b-3da4-40ae-a43c-f7aa60e62599","dateUpdated":"2026-04-08T17:12:43.620Z"},"credits":[{"lang":"en","type":"finder","value":"Kenneth Dunn"}],"timeline":[{"time":"2025-05-30T18:09:43.000Z","lang":"en","value":"Disclosed"}]},"adp":[{"title":"CISA ADP Vulnrichment","metrics":[{"other":{"type":"ssvc","content":{"timestamp":"2025-06-02T15:37:18.671660Z","id":"CVE-2025-4607","options":[{"Exploitation":"none"},{"Automatable":"yes"},{"Technical Impact":"total"}],"role":"CISA Coordinator","version":"2.0.3"}}}],"providerMetadata":{"shortName":"CISA-ADP","orgId":"134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0","dateUpdated":"2025-06-02T15:49:31.883Z"}}]}}}