Profile Builder – User Profile & User Registration Forms: Sensitive information exposure
Profile Builder – User Profile & User Registration Forms is affected by sensitive information exposure. Exploitation requires an authenticated WordPress account. Successful exploitation can disclose data that should not be available to the caller.
- Component
- Profile Builder – User Profile & User Registration Forms
- Plugin slug
profile-builder- Affected
- See vendor advisory
- Safe version
- See mitigation notes
- Published
- Feb 14, 2023
This CVE was published Feb 14, 2023 and is one of 23 known issues for this plugin.
Update, patch or deactivate.
Update Profile Builder – User Profile & User Registration Forms to a release outside the affected range, or disable and remove it until a fixed version is available.
No confirmed safe version is listed. Consider a vendor-supported patch or temporarily restricting the affected functionality while you assess the risk.
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 Profile Builder – User Profile & User Registration Forms plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to sensitive information disclosure via the [user_meta] shortcode in versions up to, and including 3.9.0. This is due to insufficient restriction on sensitive user meta values that can be called via that shortcode. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level permissions, and above to retrieve sensitive user meta that can be used to gain access to a high privileged user account. This does require the Usermeta shortcode be enabled to be exploited.
CVE / CNA vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
NVD vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N