WP User Manager – User Profile Builder & Membership <= 2.9.11 - Missing Authorization to Carbon Fields Custom Sidebar Addition/Removal

Missing Authorization
CVE CVE-2024-10216
CVSS Medium (4.3)
Publicly Published November 22, 2024
Last Updated November 23, 2024
Researcher BrokenAC ignore
Description

The WP User Manager – User Profile Builder & Membership plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the 'add_sidebar' and 'remove_sidebar' functions in all versions up to, and including, 2.9.11. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to add or remove a Carbon Fields custom sidebar if the Carbon Fields (carbon-fields) plugin is installed.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug wp-user-manager (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 2.9.11
Patched Version
  • 2.9.12
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