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WordPress Plugin: profile-builder: CVE-2023-2297: Unverified Password Change

Severity
10
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
Feb 13, 2023
Added
May 15, 2025
Modified
May 4, 2026

Description

The Profile Builder – User Profile and User Registration Forms plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized password resets in versions up to, and including 3.9.0. This is due to the plugin using native password reset functionality, with insufficient validation on the password reset function (wppb_front_end_password_recovery). The function uses the plaintext value of a password reset key instead of a hashed value which means it can easily be retrieved and subsequently used. An attacker can leverage CVE-2023-0814, or another vulnerability like SQL Injection in another plugin or theme installed on the site to successfully exploit this vulnerability.

Solution

profile-builder-plugin-cve-2023-2297
Title
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