User Profile Builder <= 3.15.1 — Unauthenticated Privilege Escalation via Account Takeover
CVE-2025-15030Published · Updated Action summary
Affected: ≤3.15.1Update to 3.15.2 or newer
All remediation steps- Severity
- Critical9.8
- CVSS
- 9.8CVSS 3.1 · CNA (Wordfence)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HWhat does this vector mean?
AV:NAttack vector- Network
AC:LAttack complexity- Low
PR:NPrivileges required- None
UI:NUser interaction- None
S:UScope- Unchanged
C:HConfidentiality- High
I:HIntegrity- High
A:HAvailability- High
- Required access
- No account needed
- Exploit prediction (EPSS)
- No score
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
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Am I affected?
User Profile Builder – Beautiful User Registration Forms, User Profiles & User Role Editor profile-builder
- Affected≤ 3.15.1
- Patched in3.15.2
Update to 3.15.2 or newer.
You are affected if you run ≤ 3.15.1. Version 3.15.2 and later are not affected by this issue.
- Check your version: in wp-admin go to Plugins → Installed Plugins and read the version under User Profile Builder – Beautiful User Registration Forms, User Profiles & User Role Editor.
- 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
- Update to version 3.15.2, or a newer patched version
- Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
- Watch User Profile Builder – Beautiful User Registration Forms, User Profiles & User Role Editor to get an email when the next vulnerability is published.
Advisory
Source description from Wordfence Intelligence, credited to Drew Webber (mcdruid).
The User Profile Builder – Beautiful User Registration Forms, User Profiles & User Role Editor plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation via account takeover in all versions up to, and including, 3.15.1. This is due to the plugin not properly validating a user's identity prior to updating their password. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to change arbitrary user's passwords, including administrators, and leverage that to gain access to their account.
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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- Medium5.3Unauthenticated Information Exposure
≤4.0.6Update to 4.0.7
- Medium6.3Authenticated (Contributor+) Privilege Escalation
≤4.0.5Update to 4.0.6
- High7.2Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting
≤4.0.5Update to 4.0.6
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≤4.0.5Update to 4.0.6
- Medium6.4Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting
<4.0.5Update to 4.0.5
Timeline
CVE published
Severity critical, CVSS 9.8
Record last updated
Sources & licenses
Wordfence record- Vulnerability data
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- CVSS / CWE
- National Vulnerability Database (NVD), shown unmodified. This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.
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