CVE-2025-14996Critical· 9.8▾ Midnight

The AS Password Field In Default Registration Form plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation via account takeover in all versions up to, and including, 2.0.0

▾ Midnight zone — Critical, or high with PoC / in-the-wild

Depth score54/ 100 · Moderate

impact 53.9 · likelihood 0.1 · exploitation 0

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Published

Jan 6, 2026

Updated

Oct 7, 2026

CVSS

9.8

Vendor

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Product

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CWE

CWE-639

Depth score

54 · Moderate

EPSS

0.37% · p31

Platforms

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Source

NVD

Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

EPSS history

Exploit-prediction probability, daily snapshots since Sep 30.

0.4% → 0.4%

Timeline

Disclosure to exploitation, from the record and what we observed since indexing it.

4 events · 274 days

Jan 6, 2026Published
Disclosed via NVD
Sep 30, 2026EPSS first tracked
0.4%
Oct 2, 2026EPSS peak
0.4% → 0.4%
Oct 7, 2026Record revised
Last analysed / modified upstream

CWE-639 #nvd

Full technical detail▾

Overview

The AS Password Field In Default Registration Form plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation via account takeover in all versions up to, and including, 2.0.0. This is due to the plugin not properly validating a user's identity prior to updating their password. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to change arbitrary user's passwords, including administrators, and leverage that to gain access to their account.

Remediation

Refer to the linked advisories for vendor-supplied fixes and affected version ranges.

References

Related vulnerabilities

Connected by shared product, vendor, weakness, or advisory.

#nvd

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