CVE-2025-12770: 
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation

The New User Approve plugin for WordPress contains a vulnerability (CVE-2025-12770) discovered and disclosed on November 18, 2025. This security flaw affects all versions up to and including 3.0.9 of the plugin. The vulnerability is related to insufficient API key validation in the plugin's Zapier integration component (NVD Database).

The vulnerability stems from insufficient API key validation that uses loose equality comparison in the Zapier REST API endpoints. The flaw allows exploitation through PHP type juggling by setting the api_key parameter to "0" on sites where the Zapier API key has not been configured. The vulnerability has been assigned a CVSS v3.1 Base Score of 5.3 (MEDIUM) with the vector string CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N, indicating network accessibility with low attack complexity and no privileges required (NVD Database).

When exploited, this vulnerability enables unauthenticated attackers to retrieve personally identifiable information (PII) from the affected WordPress installations. The exposed data includes usernames and email addresses of users with various approval statuses (NVD Database).