CVE-2022-0653

Profile Builder – User Profile & User Registration Forms <= 3.6.1 Reflected Cross-Site Scripting

The Profile Builder – User Profile & User Registration Forms WordPress plugin is vulnerable to Cross-Site Scripting due to insufficient escaping and sanitization of the site_url parameter found in the ~/assets/misc/fallback-page.php file which allows attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts onto a pages that executes whenever a user clicks on a specially crafted link by an attacker. This affects versions up to and including 3.6.1.

Affected

Cozmoslabs · Profile Builder – User Profile & User Registration Forms

CVSS v3.1 NVD

6.1 MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

CVSS v2.0 NVD

4.3 MEDIUMAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

EPSS

2.33% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, 83rd percentile

Nuclei

medium · CWE-79

Published

2022-02-24

Updated

2025-01-31

Nuclei templates (1)

• projectdiscovery/nuclei-templates/blob/main/http/cves/2022/CVE-2022-0653.yaml

Security advisories

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=2655168%…
• https://www.wordfence.com/blog/2022/02/reflected-cross-site-scripting-vulnerability-patch…

References

• CVE Record
• NVD entry