# CVE-2021-25076: WP User Frontend < 3.5.26 - SQL Injection to Reflected Cross-Site Scripting

> An attacker can inject SQL and execute scripts via the status parameter in the WP User Frontend plugin, potentially compromising data and user sessions.

- **Severity:** High 8.8 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Any signed-in user
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 24 Jan 2022
- **Updated:** 3 Aug 2024
- **Also known as:** GHSA-gx4g-7h78-x658

## What is CVE-2021-25076?

CVE-2021-25076 is a high-severity SQL injection vulnerability in Unknown WP User Frontend – Membership, Profile, Registration & Post Submission Plugin for WordPress, published on 24 Jan 2022. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

The WP User Frontend WordPress plugin before 3.5.26 does not validate and escape the status parameter before using it in a SQL statement in the Subscribers dashboard, leading to an SQL injection. Due to the lack of sanitisation and escaping, this could also lead to Reflected Cross-Site Scripting

Weakness: CWE-89 (Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an SQL Command)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2021-25076?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Wedevs Wp User Frontend.

## How do I fix CVE-2021-25076?

No fix has been published for CVE-2021-25076 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2021-25076 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2021-25076 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Public exploit code:

- Wordpress Plugin WP User Frontend < 3.5.26 - SQL-Injection (Authenticated) (github_poc): https://github.com/abbarhissarh/CVE-2021-25076
- WordPress Plugin WP User Frontend 3.5.25 - SQLi (Authenticated) (exploitdb)

## Other vulnerabilities in Unknown WP User Frontend – Membership, Profile, Registration & Post Submission Plugin for WordPress

- [CVE-2021-24649](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2021-24649/): WP User Frontend < 3.5.29 - Obscure Registration as Admin (critical 9.8)
- [CVE-2024-38693](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-38693/): WordPress WP User Frontend plugin <= 4.0.7 - SQL Injection vulnerability (high 7.6)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2021-25076 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2021-25076 is a high-severity SQL injection vulnerability in Unknown WP User Frontend – Membership, Profile, Registration & Post Submission Plugin for WordPress, published on 24 Jan 2022. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2021-25076 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Unknown WP User Frontend – Membership, Profile, Registration & Post Submission Plugin for WordPress. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2021-25076/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2021-25076/index.md)
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## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-25076
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-25076
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2021-25076

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2021-25076/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.