User Profile Builder – Beautiful User Registration Forms, User Profiles & User Role Editor <= 3.15.5 — Insecure Direct Object Reference to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Arbitrary Post Author Reassignment via Avatar Field
CVE-2026-3139Published · Updated Action summary
Affected: ≤3.15.5Update to 3.15.6 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:N/I:L/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:NConfidentiality- None
I:LIntegrity- Low
A:NAvailability- None
- Required access
- Unknown
- 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≤ 3.15.5
- Patched in3.15.6
Update to 3.15.6 or newer.
You are affected if you run ≤ 3.15.5. Version 3.15.6 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.
What to do
- Update to version 3.15.6, 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 type5afe.
The User Profile Builder – Beautiful User Registration Forms, User Profiles & User Role Editor plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Insecure Direct Object Reference in versions up to, and including, 3.15.5 via the wppb_save_avatar_value() function due to missing validation on a user controlled key. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, to reassign ownership of arbitrary posts and attachments by changing 'post_author'.
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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| High7.2 | Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting ≤4.0.5Update to 4.0.6 | CVE-2026-54855 | |
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| Medium6.4 | Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting <4.0.5Update to 4.0.5 | CVE-2026-111966 |
- 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
- Medium5.3Missing Authorization
≤4.0.5Update to 4.0.6
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<4.0.5Update to 4.0.5
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.
- 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.