User Profile Builder – Beautiful User Registration Forms, User Profiles & User Role Editor: Sensitive information exposure
User Profile Builder – Beautiful User Registration Forms, User Profiles & User Role Editor is affected by sensitive information exposure. Exploitation requires an authenticated contributor account. Successful exploitation can disclose data that should not be available to the caller.
- Component
- User Profile Builder – Beautiful User Registration Forms, User Profiles & User Role Editor
- Plugin slug
profile-builder- Affected
- See vendor advisory
- Safe version
- See mitigation notes
- Published
- Jan 11, 2024
This CVE was published Jan 11, 2024 and is one of 29 known issues for this plugin.
Update, patch or deactivate.
No fixed release is identified. Update User Profile Builder – Beautiful User Registration Forms, User Profiles & User Role Editor 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 User Profile Builder – Beautiful User Registration Forms, User Profiles & User Role Editor plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized access of data due to a missing capability check on the wppb_toolbox_usermeta_handler function in all versions up to, and including, 3.10.7. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with contributor-level access and above, to expose sensitive information within user metadata.
CVE / CNA vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
NVD vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N