PSW Front-end Login & Registration <= 1.12 - Insufficiently Random Values to Unauthenticated Account Takeover/Privilege Escalation via customer_registration Function

Use of Insufficiently Random Values
CVE CVE-2025-4607
CVSS Critical (9.8)
Publicly Published May 30, 2025
Last Updated May 31, 2025
Researcher kr0d
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

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug psw-login-and-registration (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? No
Affected Version
  • <= 1.12
Patched Version
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