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User Profile Builder – Beautiful User Registration Forms, User Profiles & User Role Editor, CVE-2023-2297

CVE, Research URL

CVE-2023-2297

Published on
Apr 27, 2023
Research Description
The Profile Builder – User Profile & User Registration Forms plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized password resets in versions up to, and including 3.9.0. This is due to the plugin using native password reset functionality, with insufficient validation on the password reset function (wppb_front_end_password_recovery). The function uses the plaintext value of a password reset key instead of a hashed value which means it can easily be retrieved and subsequently used. An attacker can leverage CVE-2023-0814, or another vulnerability like SQL Injection in another plugin or theme installed on the site to successfully exploit this vulnerability.
Affected versions
Min -, max 3.9.8.
Status
vulnerable