User Profile Builder – Beautiful User Registration Forms, User Profiles & User Role Editor <= 3.12.9 - Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting

Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
CVE CVE-2024-12738
CVSS Medium (6.1)
Publicly Published January 6, 2025
Last Updated January 7, 2025
Researcher Brian Mungai
Description

The User Profile Builder – Beautiful User Registration Forms, User Profiles & User Role Editor plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via several user meta parameters in all versions up to, and including, 3.12.9 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page and clicks a link to show user meta.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug profile-builder (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 3.12.9
Patched Version
  • 3.13.0
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