Cross-Site Request Forgery Vulnerability in UserPro Plugin for WordPress
CVE-2023-2438

6.1MEDIUM

Key Information:

Vendor

Wordpress
Status
UserPro - Community and User Profile WordPress Plugin
Vendor
CVE Published:
22 November 2023

What is CVE-2023-2438?

The UserPro plugin for WordPress has a Cross-Site Request Forgery vulnerability due to inadequate nonce validation in the 'userpro_save_userdata' function. This vulnerability allows unauthenticated attackers to potentially alter user meta and inject harmful JavaScript by tricking a site administrator into executing a malicious action, such as clicking a link. This can lead to unauthorized access and exploitation of user data, posing serious security risks to WordPress sites running vulnerable versions.

Affected Version(s)

UserPro - Community and User Profile WordPress Plugin * <= 5.1.0

References

https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id...
https://codecanyon.net/item/userpro-user-profiles-with-so...

CVSS V3.1

Score:
6.1
Severity:
MEDIUM
Confidentiality:
Low
Integrity:
Low
Availability:
Low
Attack Vector:
Network
Attack Complexity:
Low
Privileges Required:
None
User Interaction:
Required
Scope:
Changed

Timeline

  • Vulnerability published

  • Vulnerability Reserved

Credit

István Márton
.