Where
-Infinity
0
Severity
7.2
XSS
AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

The User Profile Builder – Beautiful User Registration Forms, User Profiles & User Role Editor plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via First Name Field in all versions up to, and including, 4.0.3 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. This vulnerability is only exploitable when the Email Confirmation feature is enabled in Profile Builder.

First published (updated )
Severity
8.1
AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

The User Profile Builder – Beautiful User Registration Forms, User Profiles & User Role Editor plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Privilege Escalation in all versions up to, and including, 4.0.3 via the role parameter handled by the wppbaddmetatouseronactivation() function. The vulnerability exists because the activation handler passes the attacker-supplied role value directly to WPUser::setrole() with no allow-list validation, and the 4.0.3 reserved-name check exempts pre-existing form fields from the block, allowing a legacy field with meta-name role to persist and bridge attacker-controlled request input into the serialized signup record stored in wpsignups. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to gain a fully activated WordPress administrator account by submitting role=administrator through the public [wppb-register] shortcode form and subsequently clicking the confirmation activation link. Exploitation requires the site to have a legacy form field with meta-name role carried over from before the 4.0.3 upgrade, email confirmation enabled, and open user registration — all stable site-state conditions once established.

First published (updated )
Severity
6.4
XSS
AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

The User Profile Builder – Beautiful User Registration Forms, User Profiles & User Role Editor plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'displayname' parameter in all versions up to, and including, 4.0.3 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page. The payload persists in wpcomments.commentauthor independently of the user account, so removing or changing the attacker's display name after the comment is posted does not neutralize the stored script.

First published (updated )
Severity
7.2
EPSS
0.26%
XSS
AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

The User Profile Builder – Beautiful User Registration Forms, User Profiles & User Role Editor plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Avatar Field in all versions up to, and including, 4.0.2 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. The zero-length multipart file branch in wppbsaveavatarvalue() writes the raw request value directly to user meta, bypassing the wppbsaveattachmentid()/wppbverifyattachmentid() validation path; the stored payload is later adopted as a WordPress attachment URL and rendered unescaped by wppbdefaultfieldsmakeuploadbutton() when an administrator views the affected account.

First published (updated )
Severity
6.4
XSS
AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

The User Profile Builder – Beautiful User Registration Forms, User Profiles & User Role Editor plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Avatar Field in all versions up to, and including, 4.0.2 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page. This is exploitable via a nonce-free GET request to /wp-admin/profile.php, requiring no profile-form submission; a Subscriber can plant the malicious attachment URL, which then executes when an administrator opens that user's Edit User screen.

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