CVE-2025-3607 Frontend Login and Registration Blocks <= 1.0.8 - Authenticated (Subscriber+) Privilege Escalation via Password Reset
Authenticated subscribers can escalate privileges to administrator by resetting arbitrary user passwords due to missing identity validation.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2025-3607?
CVE-2025-3607 is a high-severity vulnerability in arkenon Login, Registration and Lost Password Blocks, published on 24 Apr 2025. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
The Frontend Login and Registration Blocks plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation via account takeover in all versions up to, and including, 1.0.8. This is due to the plugin not properly validating a user's identity prior to updating a password. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to change arbitrary user's passwords, including administrators, and leverage that to gain access to their account.
Weakness: CWE-620
Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-3607?
How do I fix CVE-2025-3607?
No fix has been published for CVE-2025-3607 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Is CVE-2025-3607 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-3607 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Sources
Also known as GHSA-69q5-9q88-37jm.