WordPress security changelog
MEDIUM CVE-2026-12418 Deferred

User Frontend: AI Powered Frontend Posting, User Directory, Profile Builder, Membership & User Registration: A security weakness

User Frontend: AI Powered Frontend Posting, User Directory, Profile Builder, Membership & User Registration 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. The published affected range is <= 4.3.7.

CVE / CNA score 5.3 CVSS 3.1 · security@wordfence.com
NVD score Pending NVD has not published its own CVSS assessment.
Component
User Frontend: AI Powered Frontend Posting, User Directory, Profile Builder, Membership & User Registration
Plugin slug
wp-user-frontend
Affected
<= 4.3.7
Safe version
> 4.3.7
Published
Jul 09, 2026
Weakness
CWE-639 — Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key

This CVE was published Jul 09, 2026 and is one of 17 known issues for this plugin.

What to do

Update, patch or deactivate.

Update User Frontend: AI Powered Frontend Posting, User Directory, Profile Builder, Membership & User Registration to a release after 4.3.7, or disable and remove it until a fixed version is available.

A safe version is available, so updating to that version or later is the preferred remediation. If an immediate update is not practical, consider a targeted application patch or temporarily restricting the affected functionality.

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 Frontend: AI Powered Frontend Posting, User Directory, Profile, Membership & User Registration plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Insecure Direct Object Reference in all versions up to, and including, 4.3.7 via the 'wpuf_files_data' parameter due to missing validation on a user controlled key. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to overwrite the post_title, post_content, and post_excerpt of any arbitrary post on the site, including posts authored by administrators. Exploitation requires access to any WPUF post submission form; this is achievable by users with no WordPress role, as the wpuf_submit_post AJAX action is gated only by a nonce with no capability check for the downstream post-edit operation.

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

References

Primary and upstream sources