CVE-2025-3921 (GCVE-0-2025-3921)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-05-07 01:43 – Updated: 2025-05-07 14:03
VLAI?
Title
PeproDev Ultimate Profile Solutions 1.9.1 - 7.5.2 - Missing Authorization to Limited Unauthenticated Arbitrary User Meta Update via handel_ajax_req Function
Summary
The PeproDev Ultimate Profile Solutions plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the handel_ajax_req() function in versions 1.9.1 to 7.5.2. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to update arbitrary user's metadata which can be leveraged to block an administrator from accessing their site when wp_capabilities is set to 0.
Severity ?
8.2 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:L
CWE
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
peprodev PeproDev Ultimate Profile Solutions Affected: 1.9.1 , ≤ 7.5.2 (semver)
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Credits
Kenneth Dunn
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