User Profile Builder – Beautiful User Registration Forms, User Profiles & User Role Editor: Cross-site scripting
User Profile Builder – Beautiful User Registration Forms, User Profiles & User Role Editor is affected by cross-site scripting. The vulnerable path is reachable without authentication. Injected script can execute in the affected site's origin when the vulnerable output is viewed.
- 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 07, 2025
This CVE was published Jan 07, 2025 and is one of 23 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 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 User Profile Builder – Beautiful User Registration Forms, User Profiles & User Role Editor plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via several user meta parameters in all versions up to, and including, 3.12.9 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page and clicks a link to show user meta.
CVE / CNA vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N