Profile Builder: Cross-site request forgery
Profile Builder is affected by cross-site request forgery. The vulnerable path is reachable without authentication. Exploitation relies on a signed-in privileged user submitting an attacker-controlled request.
- Component
- Profile Builder
- Plugin slug
profile-builder- Affected
- See vendor advisory
- Safe version
- See mitigation notes
- Published
- Sep 04, 2023
This CVE was published Sep 04, 2023 and is one of 29 known issues for this plugin.
Update, patch or deactivate.
No fixed release is identified. Update Profile Builder when a confirmed fixed release becomes available; until then, disable and remove it when the site's risk warrants.
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 WordPress plugin before 3.9.8 lacks authorisation and CSRF in its page creation function which allows unauthenticated users to create the register, log-in and edit-profile pages from the plugin on the blog
CVE / CNA vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
NVD vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N