User Profile Builder – Beautiful User Registration Forms, User Profiles & User Role Editor: A security weakness
User Profile Builder – Beautiful User Registration Forms, User Profiles & User Role Editor is affected by a security weakness. Exploitation requires at least subscriber-level access. The resulting impact depends on how the affected component exposes the vulnerable operation. The published affected range is <= 3.15.5.
- Component
- User Profile Builder – Beautiful User Registration Forms, User Profiles & User Role Editor
- Affected
- <= 3.15.5
- Safe version
> 3.15.5- Published
- Mar 31, 2026
This CVE was published Mar 31, 2026 and is one of 3 known issues for this plugin.
Update, patch or deactivate.
Update User Profile Builder – Beautiful User Registration Forms, User Profiles & User Role Editor to a release after 3.15.5, or disable and remove it until a fixed version is available.
A safe version is available, so updating to that version or later is the preferred remediation. If an immediate update is not practical, consider a targeted application patch or temporarily restricting the affected functionality.
Deactivate only when warranted by your risk profile, or when advised by your hosting provider in the limited circumstances where the vulnerability cannot otherwise be mitigated. If you’re unsure which action is appropriate, contact Fused or your hosting provider for guidance.
Technical description
The User Profile Builder – Beautiful User Registration Forms, User Profiles & User Role Editor plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Insecure Direct Object Reference in versions up to, and including, 3.15.5 via the wppb_save_avatar_value() function due to missing validation on a user controlled key. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, to reassign ownership of arbitrary posts and attachments by changing 'post_author'.
CVE / CNA vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N