User Profile Builder – Beautiful User Registration Forms, User Profiles & User Role Editor <= 3.11.7 - Missing Authorization to Unauthenticated Media Upload

2024-07-08 00:00
Michel Prunet

Vulnerability Overview

The User Profile Builder – Beautiful User Registration Forms, User Profiles & User Role Editor plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized file uplloads due to a missing capability check on the wppb_upload_file_type() function in all versions up to, and including, 3.11.7. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to upload arbitrary media files via the async upload functionality.

Technical Analysis

REMEDIATION: Update to version 3.11.8, or a newer patched version --- IDENTIFIER: CWE-862 (Missing Authorization) The product does not perform an authorization check when an actor attempts to access a resource or perform an action.

External References

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