CVE-2024-12738 json
User Profile Builder – Beautiful User Registration Forms, User Profiles & User Role Editor <= 3.12.9 - Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting
published 2025-01-07 22 mo ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2024-51080
- cvss
- 6.1
- version 3.1, CNA
- cisa kev
- Not listed
- not in CISA's catalog
- epss
- 0.4%
- EPSS 0.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 34%
- public exploits
- 0
- none known
Summary
The User Profile Builder – Beautiful User Registration Forms, User Profiles & User Role Editor plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via several user meta parameters in all versions up to, and including, 3.12.9 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page and clicks a link to show user meta.
Patch / fix
- cozmoslabs profile_builder 3.13.0
CISA SSVC
- Exploitation
- none
- Automatable
- no
- Technical impact
- partial
- Assessed
- 22 mo ago
Exploit prediction
0.40% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 34% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).
CVSS scores
| assigned by | version | score | vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| CNA | 3.1 | 6.1 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N |
Affected products
- cozmoslabs User Profile Builder – Beautiful User Registration Forms, User Profiles & User Role Editor
Classification
- Weakness
-
- CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation
- Technology feeds
References
- wordfence.com /threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/51b626e1-89c0-49b9-bfeb-32005e8e78d6?source=cve
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org /browser/profile-builder/tags/3.12.8/features/email-confirmation/class-email-confirmation.php
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org /browser/profile-builder/tags/3.12.8/features/email-confirmation/class-email-confirmation.php#L95
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org /changeset/3217544/
Sources
- CVE List CVE-2024-12738
- NVD CVE-2024-12738
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CPEs and fixed versions use Anchore's correction of NVD's data: Added CPE configurations because not yet analyzed by NVD.