Stop User Enumeration <= 1.7.2 - Protection Mechanism Bypass

Protection Mechanism Failure
CVE CVE-2025-4302
CVSS Medium (5.3)
Publicly Published June 26, 2025
Last Updated July 25, 2025
Researcher Stan, Chin Siang Leow
Description

The Stop User Enumeration plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to protection mechanism bypass in all versions up to, and including, 1.7.2. This is due to the plugin not restricting URL encoded paths from returning user data. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to enumerate WordPress users.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug stop-user-enumeration (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 1.7.2
Patched Version
  • 1.7.3
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