ProfilePress 3.0 - 3.1.3 - Authenticated Privilege Escalation
CVE-2021-34622

9.8CRITICAL

Key Information:

Vendor
Wordpress
Status
Profilepress
Vendor
CVE Published:
7 July 2021

Summary

A vulnerability in the user profile update component found in the ~/src/Classes/EditUserProfile.php file of the ProfilePress WordPress plugin made it possible for users to escalate their privileges to that of an administrator while editing their profile. This issue affects versions 3.0.0 - 3.1.3. .

Affected Version(s)

ProfilePress 3.0.0 - 3.1.3

References

https://www.wordfence.com/blog/2021/06/easily-exploitable...
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CVSS V3.1

Score:
9.8
Severity:
CRITICAL
Confidentiality:
High
Integrity:
High
Availability:
High
Attack Vector:
Network
Attack Complexity:
Low
Privileges Required:
None
User Interaction:
None
Scope:
Unchanged

Timeline

  • Vulnerability published

  • Vulnerability Reserved

Credit

Chloe Chamberland, Wordfence
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