CVE-2024-10216 Missing authorization in WP User Manager – User Profile Builder & Membership
Authenticated subscribers can modify custom sidebars in WP User Manager if Carbon Fields is installed, due to missing capability checks.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2024-10216?
CVE-2024-10216 is a medium-severity missing authorization vulnerability in wpusermanager WP User Manager – User Profile Builder & Membership, published on 23 Nov 2024. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
The WP User Manager – User Profile Builder & Membership plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the 'add_sidebar' and 'remove_sidebar' functions in all versions up to, and including, 2.9.11. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to add or remove a Carbon Fields custom sidebar if the Carbon Fields (carbon-fields) plugin is installed.
Weakness: CWE-862
Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-10216?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Wpusermanager Wp User Manager.
How do I fix CVE-2024-10216?
No fix has been published for CVE-2024-10216 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Upgrade, and check permissions on every request on the server, not only in the interface. More about Missing authorization.
Is CVE-2024-10216 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-10216 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in wpusermanager WP User Manager – User Profile Builder & Membership
Sources
Also known as GHSA-8pvw-fcjr-8g6p.