Description

WordPress Plugin User Profile Builder-Beautiful User Registration Forms, User Profiles & User Role Editor is prone to a security bypass vulnerability. Successfully exploiting this issue may allow an attacker to gain access to the change password functionality and change the password of an arbitrary user, resulting in accessing user account. WordPress Plugin User Profile Builder-Beautiful User Registration Forms, User Profiles & User Role Editor version 1.1.24 is vulnerable; prior versions may also be affected.

Remediation

Update to plugin version 1.1.26 or latest

References

http://ceriksen.com/2012/05/23/wordpress-profile-builder-plugin-vertical-privilege-escalation/

http://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/547448/profile-builder/trunk/front-end/wppb.recover.password.php

http://secunia.com/advisories/49201/

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MySQL CVE-2022-21309 Vulnerability (CVE-2022-21309)

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Severity

High

Classification

CWE-264 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Tags

Missing Update Authentication Bypass