Easy Username Updater

Easy Username Updater has one disclosed vulnerability in the WordSec catalog, all reported in 2022; it is fixed as of September 2026. Their average CVSS score is 8.8, and the most serious one scores 8.8 out of 10. Severity breakdown: 0 critical and 1 high.

The most common weakness is Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF), behind 1 of the records (100%).

The one issue recorded for Easy Username Updater has a vendor fix available, so running the current release closes it.

All of these findings were reported by Raad Haddad. Easy Username Updater is installed on roughly 10,000 WordPress sites, so each unpatched flaw has a wide blast radius. The current release is tested up to WordPress 6.9.7.

Strategic Overview

Avg CVSSHigh
8.8/ 10
Patch Coverage100%
Open

0

Fixed

1

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Highest severity on recordCVSS 8.8CVE-2022-2355

Easy Username Updater <= 1.0.3 - Cross-Site Request Forgery to Username Change

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Vulnerability Records

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Plugin Profile
Latestv1.0.6

Easy Username Updater

Yogesh Pant

Author

Yogesh Pant

4.2(38)
84/100
Last Updated
2026-04-03 (5mo ago)
Active Installs
10,000+
Downloads
135,910
Requires WP
4.0+
Requires PHP
0+
Tested up to
WP 6.9.7
Created
2016-10-03 (10y ago)

Easy Username updater is a plugin which allows administrators to change usernames on their site. It provide list of users with their email address,username and role. It changes display name as well. This plugin also do following: Search the user by username, email address, or role. Send the updated username to user by email. How to install? Unzip the downloaded &#8216;username-updater.zip’ file Upload the &#8216;username-updater’ folder to &#8216;/wp-content/plugins’ directory of your WordPress installation Activate the plugin via the WordPress Plugins page A new submenu will automatically create on users menu

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