CVE-2025-12770: New User Approve (WordPress plugin) · Information Exposure
Affects New User Approve (WordPress plugin)Source CVE Database V5
Not known to be exploited · CVSS 5.3 Medium.
Data as of 26 Oct 2026, 06:26 UTC
- EPSS
- 0.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days – higher than 24% of CVEsExploit Prediction Scoring System: the likelihood attackers will use this flaw soon.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:NExploitation evidence
Disclosed: evidence found.
CVE published 19 Nov 2025
Detectable: no evidence on record.
No public nuclei template indexed
Weaponised: no evidence on record.
No public exploit code indexed in Metasploit or Exploit-DB
Exploited in the wildExploited: no evidence on record.
Not in CISA KEV and no source reports exploitation
Observed by OffSeq MirageSeen by Mirage: no evidence on record.
No attack traffic recorded by OffSeq Mirage sensors
A missing step is not evidence of safety. Sources: cve.org (opens in a new tab), the Metasploit, Exploit-DB and nuclei-templates index as of 2026-10-26.
What to do
Affected software
| Product | Affected | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| saadiqbal New User Approve | Affected
| Fixed in– |
AI-suggested
Until an official fix is released, administrators should consider disabling the Zapier API integration or ensuring that the Zapier API key is properly configured to prevent exploitation. Monitoring for unauthorized access attempts to the API endpoints is also advisable.
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 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.
References
- wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/3f1cf77a-64b4-405b-adcb-ef16d9e82ab2?source=cve (opens in a new tab)
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/new-user-approve/tags/3.0.9/includes/zapier/includes/rest-api.php (opens in a new tab)
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/new-user-approve/tags/3.0.9/includes/zapier/includes/rest-api.php (opens in a new tab)
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/new-user-approve/trunk/includes/zapier/includes/rest-api.php (opens in a new tab)