PT-2025-30370 · WordPress · User Registration

Muhammad Yudha · Published 2025-07-22 · Updated 2025-07-22 · CVE-2025-6831

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

6.4

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions User Registration plugin for WordPress versions prior to 4.2.5

Description The User Registration plugin for WordPress is susceptible to Stored Cross-Site Scripting through the plugin’s urcr restrict shortcode. Insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user-supplied attributes allows authenticated attackers with contributor-level access or higher to inject arbitrary web scripts into pages. These scripts execute when a user accesses the injected page.

Recommendations Update the User Registration plugin to version 4.2.5 or later.

Fix

XSS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-79

Related Identifiers

CVE-2025-6831

Affected Products

User Registration

References · 9

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-6831 · Security Note
• https://t.me/cvenotify/129767 · Telegram Post
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3329704 · Note
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/user-registration/tags/4.2.4/modules/content-restriction/class-urcr-shortcodes.php · Note
• https://twitter.com/CVEnew/status/1947494216818385327 · Twitter Post
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/user-registration/tags/4.2.4/modules/content-restriction/class-urcr-shortcodes.php#L147 · Note
• https://twitter.com/VulmonFeeds/status/1947581525286941179 · Twitter Post
• https://wordpress.org/plugins/user-registration/#developers · Note
• https://wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/50f3e469-f788-45da-95e7-aa6da1e87fd1?source=cve · Note