User Meta – User Profile Builder and User management plugin <= 2.4.3 — Path Traversal
CVE-2022-0779Published · Updated Action summary
Affected: <2.4.4Update to 2.4.4 or newer
All remediation steps- Severity
- Medium4.3
- CVSS
- 4.3CVSS 3.1 · CNA (Wordfence)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:NWhat does this vector mean?
AV:NAttack vector- Network
AC:LAttack complexity- Low
PR:LPrivileges required- Low
UI:NUser interaction- None
S:UScope- Unchanged
C:LConfidentiality- Low
I:NIntegrity- None
A:NAvailability- None
- Weakness
- CWE-22 Path Traversal
- 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< 2.4.4
- Patched in2.4.4
Update to 2.4.4 or newer.
You are affected if you run < 2.4.4. Version 2.4.4 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 2.4.4, 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 Julien Ahrens.
The User Meta WordPress plugin before 2.4.4 does not validate the filepath parameter of its um_show_uploaded_file AJAX action, which could allow low privileged users such as subscriber to enumerate the local files on the web server via path traversal payloads
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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Timeline
CVE published
Severity medium, CVSS 4.3
Record last updated
Sources & licenses
Wordfence record- Vulnerability data
- Wordfence Intelligence. [object Object] Licensed under the CC BY-SA 4.0.
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