CVE-2015-9337

Profile Builder <= 2.1.3 - Missing Access Controls

2015-04-15 00:00

Strategic Overview

Status: Patched in 2.1.4
Affected Plugin: User Profile Builder – Beautiful User Registration Forms, User Profiles & User Role Editor
Affected Version: <= 2.1.3
CVSS: 7.5High
Weakness type: CWE-284 · Improper Access Control
CVE: CVE-2015-9337

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At a glance

CVE-2015-9337 is a high-severity Improper Access Control vulnerability in the User Profile Builder WordPress plugin, affecting versions <= 2.1.3. It carries a CVSS score of 7.5 (reachable over the network; low attack complexity; high integrity impact). Exploitation requires no authentication. The issue is fixed in version 2.1.4; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed April 2015.

Vulnerability Overview

The profile-builder plugin before 2.1.4 for WordPress has no access control for activating or deactivating addons via AJAX.

Technical Analysis

The vector marks this flaw as remotely reachable over the network, with low attack complexity — no special timing or configuration is needed, and no privileges on the target site, and no interaction from a victim user. A successful exploit has high impact on integrity.

CWE-284: Improper Access Control

Reaching this weakness in User Profile Builder <= 2.1.3 takes a caller who can reach the endpoint. Improper access control means the code decides what a caller may do using something other than their actual permissions, so the decision can be wrong without any check appearing to be missing.

Whoever can shape the request decides the answer, so the protected action runs for callers the code never meant to allow. For User Profile Builder the fix is 2.1.4: builds <= 2.1.3 are affected, anything from 2.1.4 onward is not.

Remediation

Update to version 2.1.4, or a newer patched version

How does WordSec protect against this?

Because it turns on account access, WordSec's login security is the relevant layer: role-based two-factor, captcha and brute-force limits raise the cost of getting the account this needs. None of that substitutes for the fix: User Profile Builder 2.1.4 closes this, and updating the plugin is the step that ends it.

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External References

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2015-9337 https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/1bd80ab9-260a-46c5-949e-c1d5dcb32523 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-9337

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CVSS Vector

7.5

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Base

Attack VectorNetwork
Attack ComplexityLow
Privileges RequiredNone
User InteractionNone
ScopeUnchanged
ConfidentialityNone
IntegrityHigh
AvailabilityNone

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