Description
WordPress Plugin User Profile Builder-Beautiful User Registration Forms, User Profiles & User Role Editor is prone to a security bypass vulnerability. Exploiting this issue may allow attackers to perform otherwise restricted actions and subsequently login as other users, granted they know the user's email address. WordPress Plugin User Profile Builder-Beautiful User Registration Forms, User Profiles & User Role Editor version 3.11.8 is vulnerable; prior versions may also be affected.
Remediation
Update to plugin version 3.11.9 or latest
References
https://wpscan.com/blog/unauthenticated-privilege-escalation-in-profile-builder-plugin/
https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/profile-builder/trunk/readme.txt
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