User Meta <= 2.4.2 — Authenticated (Admin+) Cross-Site Scripting
CVE-2022-0376Published · Updated Action summary
Affected: ≤2.4.2Update to 2.4.3 or newer
All remediation steps- Severity
- Medium5.5
- CVSS
- 5.5CVSS 3.1 · CNA (Wordfence)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:NWhat does this vector mean?
AV:NAttack vector- Network
AC:LAttack complexity- Low
PR:HPrivileges required- High
UI:NUser interaction- None
S:CScope- Changed
C:LConfidentiality- Low
I:LIntegrity- Low
A:NAvailability- None
- Weakness
- CWE-79 Cross-Site Scripting
- Required access
- Unknown
- Exploit prediction (EPSS)
- No score
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
On this page8
Am I affected?
User Meta – User Profile Builder and User management plugin user-meta
- Affected≤ 2.4.2
- Patched in2.4.3
Update to 2.4.3 or newer.
You are affected if you run ≤ 2.4.2. Version 2.4.3 and later are not affected by this issue.
- Check your version: in wp-admin go to Plugins → Installed Plugins and read the version under User Meta – User Profile Builder and User management plugin.
- No admin access? Run a passive check of your site. It reads public files only.
What to do
- Update to version 2.4.3, or a newer patched version
- Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
- Watch User Meta – User Profile Builder and User management plugin to get an email when the next vulnerability is published.
Advisory
Source description from Wordfence Intelligence, credited to Niraj Mahajan.
The User Meta WordPress plugin before 2.4.3 does not sanitise and escape the Form Name, as well as Shared Field Labels before outputting them in the admin dashboard when editing a form, which could allow high privilege users to perform Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when unfiltered_html is disallowed
Exploits & references
Proof-of-concept & detection
No public proof-of-concept or detection template is known for this vulnerability.
Advisories & patches
- Advisorywordfence.com
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| Medium5.3 | Unauthenticated Sensitive Information Exposure ≤3.0Update to 3.1 | CVE-2024-33575 | |
| Medium4.3 | Path Traversal <2.4.4Update to 2.4.4 | CVE-2022-0779 |
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- Medium6.1Reflected Cross-Site Scripting
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| Critical9.8 | Unauthenticated PHP Object Injection to Remote Code Execution via 'form' Parameter | CVE-2026-119077 | |
| Medium5.3 | Unauthenticated Sensitive Information Exposure in 'search' Parameter | CVE-2026-121518 |
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Timeline
CVE published
Severity medium, CVSS 5.5
Record last updated
Sources & licenses
Wordfence record- Vulnerability data
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