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UsersWP <= 1.2.15 — Missing Authorization

CVE-2024-43277Published · Updated

Action summary

Affected: ≤1.2.15Update to 1.2.16 or newer

All remediation steps
Watch plugin
Severity
Medium5.3
CVSS
5.3
CVSS 3.1 · CNA (Wordfence)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
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:N Confidentiality
None
I:L Integrity
Low
A:N Availability
None
Weakness
CWE-862 Missing Authorization
Required access
No account needed
Exploit prediction (EPSS)
No score
CISA KEV
Not listed
On this page8

Am I affected?

UsersWP – Front-end login form, User Registration, User Profile & Members Directory plugin for WP userswp

  1. Affected≤ 1.2.15
  2. Patched in1.2.16

Update to 1.2.16 or newer.

You are affected if you run ≤ 1.2.15. Version 1.2.16 and later are not affected by this issue.

  • Check your version: in wp-admin go to Plugins → Installed Plugins and read the version under UsersWP – Front-end login form, User Registration, User Profile & Members Directory plugin for WP.
  • 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 1.2.16, or a newer patched version
  2. Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
  3. Watch UsersWP – Front-end login form, User Registration, User Profile & Members Directory plugin for WP to get an email when the next vulnerability is published.

Advisory

Source description from Wordfence Intelligence, credited to Ananda Dhakal.

The UsersWP plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the activation_redirect() function in versions up to, and including, 1.2.15. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to trigger the activation redirect.

Exploits & references

Proof-of-concept & detection

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

Advisories & patches

More in UsersWP – Front-end login form, User Registration, User Profile & Members Directory plugin for WP

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SeverityVulnerabilityCVEPublished
Medium6.4Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'badge' Shortcode Attribute
≤1.2.80Update to 1.2.81
CVE-2026-120671
Medium6.5Unauthenticated Account Access via Predictable Dummy User Password Disclosed through Registration Form Hash
≤1.2.78Update to 1.2.79
CVE-2026-119980
Medium4.3Missing Authorization
≤1.2.74Update to 1.2.76
CVE-2026-103086
High7.2Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting
≤1.2.73Update to 1.2.74
CVE-2026-94641
High8.1Authenticated (Subscriber+) Arbitrary File Deletion
≤1.2.70Update to 1.2.71
CVE-2026-19991

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Timeline

  1. CVE published

    Severity medium, CVSS 5.3

  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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