UsersWP <= 1.2.58 — Authenticated (Subscriber+) Restricted Usermeta Modification via 'htmlvar' Parameter
CVE-2026-4977Published · Updated Action summary
Affected: ≤1.2.58Update to 1.2.59 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
- Weakness
- CWE-862 Missing Authorization
- Required access
- Unknown
- Exploit prediction (EPSS)
- No score
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
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Am I affected?
UsersWP – Front-end login form, User Registration, User Profile & Members Directory plugin for WP userswp
- Affected≤ 1.2.58
- Patched in1.2.59
Update to 1.2.59 or newer.
You are affected if you run ≤ 1.2.58. Version 1.2.59 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.
What to do
- Update to version 1.2.59, or a newer patched version
- Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
- 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 nquangit.
The UsersWP – Front-end login form, User Registration, User Profile & Members Directory plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Improper Access Control in all versions up to, and including, 1.2.58 This is due to insufficient field-level permission validation in the upload_file_remove() AJAX handler where the $htmlvar parameter is not validated against a whitelist of allowed fields or checked against the field's for_admin_use property. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, to clear or reset any restricted usermeta column for their own user record, including fields marked as "For admin use only", bypassing intended field-level access restrictions.
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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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.
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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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