Easily Exploitable Critical Vulnerabilities Patched in ProfilePress Plugin

The Wordfence Threat Intelligence team initiated the responsible disclosure process for several vulnerabilities that were discovered in ProfilePress, formerly WP User Avatar, a WordPress plugin installed on over 400,000 sites. These flaws made it possible for an attacker to upload arbitrary files to a vulnerable site and register as an administrator on sites even if user registration was disabled, all without requiring any prior authentication.

A patch was quickly released on May 30, 2021 as version 3.1.4.

Source: https://www.wordfence.com/blog/2021/06/easily-exploitable-critical-vulnerabilities-patched-in-profilepress-plugin

Posted in Updates, Vulnerability.