CVE-2025-12770

CVSS 5.3 Medium
  • CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
  • Published: 2025-11-19T04:16:04.920

The New User Approve plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized data disclosure in all versions up to, and including, 3.0.9 due to insufficient API key validation using loose equality comparison. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to retrieve personally identifiable information (PII), including usernames and email addresses of users with various approval statuses via the Zapier REST API endpoints, by exploiting PHP type juggling with the api_key parameter set to “0” on sites where the Zapier API key has not been configured.

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How to fix CVE-2025-12770

CVE-2025-12770 is a medium severity vulnerability affecting the affected product.

Description: The New User Approve plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized data disclosure in all versions up to, and including, 3.0.9 due to insufficient API key validation using loose equality comparison. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to retrieve personally identifiable information (PII), including usernames and email addresses of users with various approval statuses […]

Affected Versions:
❌ Vulnerable: ≤ 3.0.9
✅ Safe: ≥ 3.0.10

Exploit Difficulty: EASY
⏱️ Time to exploit: < 1 hour
🛠️ Required skills: Basic web security knowledge
💰 Public exploits: Likely available

How to Fix:

1 Identify affected systems

- Check if you're running the affected product
- Verify version (vulnerable: ≤ 3.0.9)

2 Immediate actions

- Update to ≥ 3.0.10 or later
- If patching is not immediately possible: restrict network exposure, apply least-privilege access

3 Verification

- Test the fix in a staging environment first
- Review logs for signs of exploitation
- Monitor for IOCs (Indicators of Compromise)

4 Long-term prevention

- Enable automatic security updates
- Set up vulnerability monitoring
- Review and harden security configurations

Exploit Difficulty Assessment

EASY
⏱️ Time to Exploit: < 1 hour
🛠️ Skills Required: Basic web security knowledge
💰 Public Exploits: Likely available

Affected Versions

❌ Vulnerable: ≤ 3.0.9
✅ Safe: ≥ 3.0.10

Vulnerability Timeline

Nov 19, 2025
Vulnerability Published

CVE details first published to NVD database

Nov 19, 2025
Imported to Database

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