Simple User Registration <= 6.7 - Missing Authorization to Account Takeover

Missing Authorization
CVE CVE-2024-49604
CVSS Critical (9.8)
Publicly Published October 17, 2024
Last Updated January 30, 2026
Researcher stealthcopter
Description

The Simple User Registration plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation due to a missing capability check on a function in all versions up to, and including, 6.7. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to takeover other users accounts and elevate their privileges

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug wp-registration (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 6.7
Patched Version
  • 6.8
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