Administrator account creation via user-controlled registration role
Published Apr 19, 2025 · Updated Apr 8, 2026
Privilege escalation in Edge Themes UrbanGo Membership 1.0.4 and earlier allows remote attackers to create administrator accounts. The registration handler accepts the user_register_role field from an untrusted request and assigns the requested role to the new account. No authentication is required; successful exploitation grants full WordPress administrative privileges through a newly created account.
Summary
What happened
Privilege escalation in Edge Themes UrbanGo Membership 1.0.4 and earlier allows remote attackers to create administrator accounts. The registration handler accepts the user_register_role field from an untrusted request and assigns the requested role to the new account. No authentication is required; successful exploitation grants full WordPress administrative privileges through a newly created account.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2025-3278
- Published
- Apr 19, 2025
- Updated
- Apr 8, 2026
- Vendor
- Edge Themes
- Product
- UrbanGo Membership
- Classifications
- CWE-269, T1136
- Attack vector
- network
- Privileges
- unauthenticated
Timeline
How it unfolded
- Apr 19, 2025CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Apr 8, 2026Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
Exploitability
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- Affected versionversion=0 <=1.0.4
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Reported exploitation
- Wordfence blocked attack telemetryreported exploitation
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