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WP User Manager <= 2.9.17 — Unauthenticated Path Traversal to Local File Inclusion via 'tab' Query Parameter

CVE-2026-9290Published · Updated

Action summary

Affected: ≤2.9.17Update to 2.9.18 or newer

All remediation steps
Watch plugin
Severity
High7.5
CVSS
7.5
CVSS 3.1 · CNA (Wordfence)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/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:H Confidentiality
High
I:N Integrity
None
A:N Availability
None
Weakness
CWE-22 Path Traversal
Required access
No account needed
Exploit prediction (EPSS)
No score
CISA KEV
Not listed
On this page8

Am I affected?

WP User Manager – Registration Form, Login Form, User Profile Builder & Member Directory wp-user-manager

  1. Affected≤ 2.9.17
  2. Patched in2.9.18

Update to 2.9.18 or newer.

You are affected if you run ≤ 2.9.17. Version 2.9.18 and later are not affected by this issue.

  • Check your version: in wp-admin go to Plugins → Installed Plugins and read the version under WP User Manager – Registration Form, Login Form, User Profile Builder & Member Directory.
  • 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 2.9.18, or a newer patched version
  2. Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
  3. Watch WP User Manager – Registration Form, Login Form, User Profile Builder & Member Directory to get an email when the next vulnerability is published.

Advisory

Source description from Wordfence Intelligence, credited to Yat.

The WP User Manager – User Profile Builder & Membership plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Local File Inclusion in all versions up to, and including, 2.9.17 via the (profile template scope) function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to include and execute arbitrary .php files on the server, allowing the execution of any PHP code in those files. This can be used to bypass access controls, obtain sensitive data, or achieve code execution in cases where .php file types can be uploaded and included.

Exploits & references

Proof-of-concept & detection

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

Advisories & patches

More in WP User Manager – Registration Form, Login Form, User Profile Builder & Member Directory

All 21
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SeverityVulnerabilityCVEPublished
Medium5.3Missing Authorization
≤2.10.4Update to 2.10.5
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Medium5.3Missing Authorization
≤2.10.4Update to 2.10.5
CVE-2026-121575
Medium6.4Authenticated (Subscriber+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'display_name' User Meta
≤2.10.2Update to 2.10.3
CVE-2026-120550
Medium5.3Missing Authorization
≤2.9.26Update to 2.10.0
CVE-2026-116846
Medium4.3Missing Authorization
≤2.9.25Update to 2.9.26
CVE-2026-112823

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Timeline

  1. CVE published

    Severity high, CVSS 7.5

  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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