Medium severity4.3NVD Advisory· Published Nov 8, 2025· Updated Apr 15, 2026

CVE-2025-11748

Description

The Groups plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Insecure Direct Object Reference in all versions up to, and including, 3.7.0 via the 'group_id' parameter of the group_join function due to missing validation on a user controlled key. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to register for groups other than ones set in the shortcode.

Affected products

WordPress/Groupsinferred
Range: <=3.7.0
Package: https://wordpress.org/plugins/groups

Patches

No patches discovered yet.

Vulnerability mechanics

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References

plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/groups/trunk/lib/views/class-groups-shortcodes.phpnvd
plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changesetnvd
www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/d0f6d28a-d5ca-4700-bc61-f2dd20f06fcfnvd

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