WP User Manager – User Profile Builder & Membership <= 2.9.11 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) User Meta Key Enumeration

2024-11-22 00:00
Tieu Pham Trong Nhan

Strategic Overview

Vulnerability Overview

The WP User Manager – User Profile Builder & Membership plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized access of data due to a missing capability check on the validate_user_meta_key() function in all versions up to, and including, 2.9.11. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to enumerate user meta keys.

Technical Analysis

REMEDIATION: Update to version 2.9.12, 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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