ProfilePress 3.0 - 3.1.3 - Unauthenticated Privilege Escalation

Improper Privilege Management
CVE CVE-2021-34622
CVSS Critical (9.8)
Publicly Published June 28, 2021
Last Updated January 22, 2024
Researcher Chloe Chamberland
Description

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. .

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug wp-user-avatar (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • 3.0.0 - 3.1.3
Patched Version
  • 3.1.4
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