Profile Builder <= 3.9.7 - Missing Authorization to Initial Page Creation

Missing Authorization
CVE CVE-2023-4059
CVSS Medium (5.3)
Publicly Published August 8, 2023
Last Updated January 22, 2024
Researcher Mesh3l_911
Description

The Profile Builder plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized page creation due to a missing capability check on the wppb_create_form_pages() function called via an admin_init action in versions up to, and including, 3.9.7. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to trigger the initial page creation to support the plugin.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug profile-builder (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 3.9.8
Patched Version
  • 3.9.8
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