WordPress security changelog
MEDIUM CVE-2024-3295 Deferred

User Registration – Custom Registration Form, Login Form, and User Profile: A security weakness

User Registration – Custom Registration Form, Login Form, and User Profile is affected by a security weakness. The vulnerable path is reachable without authentication. The resulting impact depends on how the affected component exposes the vulnerable operation.

CVE / CNA score 6.5 CVSS 3.1 · security@wordfence.com
NVD score Pending NVD has not published its own CVSS assessment.
Component
User Registration – Custom Registration Form, Login Form, and User Profile
Plugin slug
user-registration
Affected
See vendor advisory
Safe version
See mitigation notes
Published
May 02, 2024
Weakness
CWE-862 — Missing Authorization

This CVE was published May 02, 2024 and is one of 39 known issues for this plugin.

What to do

Update, patch or deactivate.

Update User Registration – Custom Registration Form, Login Form, and User Profile 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.

Source record

Technical description

The User Registration – Custom Registration Form, Login Form, and User Profile WordPress Plugin plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized loss of data due to a missing capability check on the profile_pic_remove function in versions up to, and including, 3.1.5. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to delete any media file.

CVE / CNA vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L

References

Primary and upstream sources