User Frontend: AI Powered Frontend Posting, User Directory, Profile, Membership & User Registration <= 4.3.7 — Insecure Direct Object Reference to Unauthenticated Arbitrary Post Modification via 'wpuf_files_data' Parameter
CVE-2026-12418Published · Updated Action summary
Affected: ≤4.3.7Update to 4.3.8 or newer
All remediation steps- Severity
- Medium5.3
- CVSS
- 5.3CVSS 3.1 · CNA (Wordfence)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:NWhat does this vector mean?
AV:NAttack vector- Network
AC:LAttack complexity- Low
PR:NPrivileges required- None
UI:NUser interaction- None
S:UScope- Unchanged
C:NConfidentiality- None
I:LIntegrity- Low
A:NAvailability- None
- Required access
- No account needed
- Exploit prediction (EPSS)
- No score
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
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Am I affected?
User Frontend – Membership, User Registration, User Profile, User Directory & Content Restriction with Frontend Post Submission wp-user-frontend
- Affected≤ 4.3.7
- Patched in4.3.8
Update to 4.3.8 or newer.
You are affected if you run ≤ 4.3.7. Version 4.3.8 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 Frontend – Membership, User Registration, User Profile, User Directory & Content Restriction with Frontend Post Submission.
- 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 4.3.8, or a newer patched version
- Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
- Watch User Frontend – Membership, User Registration, User Profile, User Directory & Content Restriction with Frontend Post Submission to get an email when the next vulnerability is published.
Advisory
Source description from Wordfence Intelligence, credited to Kim ChanYeop.
The User Frontend: AI Powered Frontend Posting, User Directory, Profile, Membership & User Registration plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Insecure Direct Object Reference in all versions up to, and including, 4.3.7 via the 'wpuf_files_data' parameter due to missing validation on a user controlled key. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to overwrite the post_title, post_content, and post_excerpt of any arbitrary post on the site, including posts authored by administrators. Exploitation requires access to any WPUF post submission form; this is achievable by users with no WordPress role, as the wpuf_submit_post AJAX action is gated only by a nonce with no capability check for the downstream post-edit operation.
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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- High7.2Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Taxonomy Field Text-Input
≤4.3.13Update to 4.3.14
- Medium6.1Reflected Cross-Site Scripting via 'field_attr[required]' Parameter
≤4.3.13Update to 4.3.14
- High8.8Authenticated (Subscriber+) Privilege Escalation via post_content Parameter
≤4.3.13Update to 4.3.14
- Medium4.3Missing Authorization
≤4.3.13Update to 4.3.14
- Medium5.3Missing Authorization
≤4.3.13Update to 4.3.14
Timeline
CVE published
Severity medium, CVSS 5.3
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.