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 v…
High CVSS 8.1
Summary
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 `wppb_add_meta_to_user_on_activation()` function. The vulnerability exists because the activation handler passes the attacker-supplied role value directly to `WP_User::set_role()` with no allow-list validation, and the 4.0.3 reserved-name check exempts pre-exis…
In-depth triage
No in-depth report has been generated yet (DR-003 v2 AI pipeline is under construction).
Sources
- NVD DATABASE
Original Links
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/profile-builder/tags/4.0.3/admin/admin-functions.php#L400
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/profile-builder/tags/4.0.3/features/email-confirmation/email-confirmation.php#L262
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/profile-builder/tags/4.0.3/front-end/class-formbuilder.php#L736
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/profile-builder/tags/4.0.3/front-end/class-formbuilder.php#L793
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/profile-builder/tags/4.0.3/front-end/register.php#L91
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3741133/profile-builder
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3741133/profile-builder/trunk/features/email-confirmation/email-confirmation.php
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/88bfd754-e2ee-47c7-9af5-f31cbe993102?source=cve
Timeline
- nvd_ingest NVD