Workreap <= 3.3.1 - Authentication Bypass via 'workreap_verify_user_account'

Authentication Bypass Using an Alternate Path or Channel
CVE CVE-2025-4973
CVSS Critical (9.8)
Publicly Published June 11, 2025
Last Updated June 12, 2025
Researcher Foxyyy
Description

The Workreap plugin for WordPress, used by the Workreap - Freelance Marketplace WordPress Theme, is vulnerable to authentication bypass in all versions up to, and including, 3.3.1. This is due to the plugin not properly verifying a user's identity prior to logging them in when verifying an account with an email address. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to log in as registered users, including administrators, if they know user's email address. This is only exploitable fi the user's confirmation_key has not already been set by the plugin.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug workreap (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 3.3.1
Patched Version
  • 3.3.2
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