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.

Classification

CVE ID: CVE-2024-12738

CVSS Base Severity: MEDIUM

CVSS Base Score: 6.1

Affected Products

Vendor: reflectionmedia

Product: User Profile Builder – Beautiful User Registration Forms, User Profiles & User Role Editor

Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)

EPSS Score: 0.05% (probability of being exploited)

EPSS Percentile: 23.15% (scored less or equal to compared to others)

EPSS Date: 2025-02-05 (when was this score calculated)

References

https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/51b626e1-89c0-49b9-bfeb-32005e8e78d6?source=cve
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/profile-builder/tags/3.12.8/features/email-confirmation/class-email-confirmation.php
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/profile-builder/tags/3.12.8/features/email-confirmation/class-email-confirmation.php#L95
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3217544/

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