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ProfilePress <= 4.13.1 — Limited Privilege Escalation via 'acceptable_defined_roles'

CVE-2023-41954Published · Updated

Action summary

Affected: <4.13.2Update to 4.13.2 or newer

All remediation steps
Watch plugin
Severity
High7.3
CVSS
7.3
CVSS 3.1 · CNA (Wordfence)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
What does this vector mean?
AV:N Attack vector
Network
AC:L Attack complexity
Low
PR:N Privileges required
None
UI:N User interaction
None
S:U Scope
Unchanged
C:L Confidentiality
Low
I:L Integrity
Low
A:L Availability
Low
Weakness
CWE-20 Improper Input Validation
Required access
No account needed
Exploit prediction (EPSS)
No score
CISA KEV
Not listed
On this page8

Am I affected?

ProfilePress – Paid Membership, Online Courses (LMS), Ecommerce, User Registration & Login Form, User Profile & Restrict Content wp-user-avatar

  1. Affected< 4.13.2
  2. Patched in4.13.2

Update to 4.13.2 or newer.

You are affected if you run < 4.13.2. Version 4.13.2 and later are not affected by this issue.

  • Check your version: in wp-admin go to Plugins → Installed Plugins and read the version under ProfilePress – Paid Membership, Online Courses (LMS), Ecommerce, User Registration & Login Form, User Profile & Restrict Content.
  • No admin access? Run a passive check of your site. It reads public files only.
  • No account is needed to exploit this. Treat any exposed site on an affected version as at risk.

What to do

  1. Update to version 4.13.2, or a newer patched version
  2. Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
  3. Watch ProfilePress – Paid Membership, Online Courses (LMS), Ecommerce, User Registration & Login Form, User Profile & Restrict Content to get an email when the next vulnerability is published.

Advisory

Source description from Wordfence Intelligence, credited to Revan Arifio.

The ProfilePress plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to limited privilege escalation in versions up to, and including, 4.13.1 via the 'acceptable_defined_roles' function due to incomplete validation on a user controlled key. This can allow unauthenticated attackers to elevate their privileges to a non-administrator role during user-registration.

Exploits & references

Proof-of-concept & detection

No public proof-of-concept or detection template is known for this vulnerability.

Advisories & patches

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<4.17.6Update to 4.17.6
CVE-2026-123657
Medium4.34.17.3 - Missing Authorization
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High7.3Unauthenticated Arbitrary Shortcode Execution
≤4.17.7Update to 4.18.0
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Medium5.4Authenticated (Subscriber+) Arbitrary Shortcode Execution
≤4.17.7Update to 4.18.0
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Timeline

  1. CVE published

    Severity high, CVSS 7.3

  2. Record last updated

Sources & licenses

Wordfence record
Vulnerability data
Wordfence Intelligence. [object Object] Licensed under the CC BY-SA 4.0.
CVE® identifiers
[object Object]. Used under the CVE Program. CVE® is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation.
CVSS / CWE
National Vulnerability Database (NVD), shown unmodified. This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.
VulnCrest content
Summary, remediation guidance and page layout © VulnCrest. Not sourced from NVD.

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