WP User Profile Avatar <= 1.0.0 - Authenticated (Author+) Insecure Direct Object Reference to Avatar Deletion/Update

Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key
CVE CVE-2023-6384
CVSS Medium (5.3)
Publicly Published December 29, 2023
Last Updated January 22, 2024
Researcher Dmitrii Ignatyev
Description

The WP User Profile Avatar plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Insecure Direct Object Reference in all versions up to, and including, 1.0.0 via the remove_user_avatar and update_user_avatar functions due to missing validation on a user controlled key. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to update and delete arbitrary avatars.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug wp-user-profile-avatar (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 1.0.0
Patched Version
  • 1.0.1
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