# 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.

- **Severity:** Medium 4.3 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N`)
- **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:** 23 Nov 2024
- **Updated:** 8 Apr 2026
- **Also known as:** GHSA-8pvw-fcjr-8g6p

## 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 (Missing Authorization)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-10216?

It affects 1 product.


Products: 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.

## 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

- [CVE-2021-24655](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2021-24655/): WP User Manager < 2.6.3 - Arbitrary User Password Reset to Account Compromise (high 7.5)
- [CVE-2024-10537](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-10537/): Missing authorization in WP User Manager – User Profile Builder & Membership (medium 4.3)
- [CVE-2024-43336](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-43336/): Cross-site request forgery in WP User Manager (medium 4.3)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2024-10216 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: 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.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-10216 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: wpusermanager WP User Manager – User Profile Builder & Membership. 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-2024-10216/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-10216/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-10216
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-10216
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2024-10216

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-10216/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.