CVE-2021-34621

ProfilePress 3.0 - 3.1.3 - Unauthenticated Privilege Escalation

CVSS 9.8 CRITICALEPSS 68.9%CWE-269

Vexday Risk Score

75High priority

SSVC decision (CISA)

Attend

PoC available → attend closely

CVSS 9.8EPSS 68.9%KEV nãoPoC públicaNuclei simMetasploit —Patch —

Lifecycle

07 Jul 2021Published on NVD

31 Aug 2021Public PoC

Recommendation: Plan a near-term fix — a public PoC already exists.

A vulnerability in the user registration component found in the ~/src/Classes/RegistrationAuth.php file of the ProfilePress WordPress plugin made it possible for users to register on sites as an administrator. This issue affects versions 3.0.0 - 3.1.3. .

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected products

ProfilePress · ProfilePress

public PoCs found — 5

githubgithub.com/navreet1425/CVE-2021-34621★ 6 githubgithub.com/K3ysTr0K3R/CVE-2021-34621-EXPLOIT★ 1 githubgithub.com/RandomRobbieBF/CVE-2021-34621★ 0 cve_referencepacketstormsecurity.com/files/163973/WordPress-ProfilePress-3.1.3-Privilege-Escalation.htmlunverified exploitdbwww.exploit-db.com/exploits/50242unverified

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References

http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/163973/WordPress-ProfilePress-3.1.3-Privilege-Escalation.html https://www.wordfence.com/blog/2021/06/easily-exploitable-critical-vulnerabilities-patched-in-profilepress-plugin/