Profile Builder - User Profile & User Registration Forms <= 3.6.1 - Cross-Site Scripting via site_url Parameter

Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
CVE CVE-2022-0653
CVSS Medium (6.1)
Publicly Published February 17, 2022
Last Updated January 22, 2024
Researcher Chloe Chamberland
Description

The Profile Builder – User Profile & User Registration Forms WordPress plugin is vulnerable to Cross-Site Scripting due to insufficient escaping and sanitization of the site_url parameter found in the ~/assets/misc/fallback-page.php file which allows attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts onto a pages that executes whenever a user clicks on a specially crafted link by an attacker. This affects versions up to and including 3.6.1.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug profile-builder (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 3.6.1
Patched Version
  • 3.6.2
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