CVE-2025-12160
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Publication date: 2025-11-21

Last updated on: 2025-11-21

Assigner: Wordfence

Description
The Simple User Registration plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'wpr_admin_msg' parameter in all versions up to, and including, 6.6 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.
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Published
2025-11-21
Last Modified
2025-11-21
Generated
2026-06-16
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2025-11-21
EPSS Evaluated
2026-06-15
NVD
CVE-2025-12160
EUVD
EUVD-2025-198431
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wordpress simple_user_registration *
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CWE ID Description
CWE-79 The product does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes user-controllable input before it is placed in output that is used as a web page that is served to other users.
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Executive Summary

This vulnerability is a Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) issue in the Simple User Registration plugin for WordPress. It occurs via the 'wpr_admin_msg' parameter due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This allows unauthenticated attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts that execute whenever a user accesses the affected page.

Impact Analysis

The vulnerability can allow attackers to execute malicious scripts in the context of users visiting the affected pages. This can lead to theft of user credentials, session hijacking, defacement, or other malicious actions impacting the confidentiality and integrity of user data.

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