Realteo - Real Estate Plugin by Purethemes <= 1.2.8 - Authentication Bypass via 'do_register_user'

Improper Privilege Management
CVE CVE-2025-2232
CVSS Critical (9.8)
Publicly Published March 13, 2025
Last Updated March 14, 2025
Researcher Tonn
Description

The Realteo - Real Estate Plugin by Purethemes plugin for WordPress, used by the Findeo Theme, is vulnerable to authentication bypass in all versions up to, and including, 1.2.8. This is due to insufficient role restrictions in the 'do_register_user' function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to register an account with the Administrator role.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug realteo (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 1.2.8
Patched Version
  • 1.2.9
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