CVEvulnerability
CVE-2024-5639
4.3 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2024-06-21
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 4.3 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-639
Description
The User Profile Picture plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Insecure Direct Object Reference in all versions up to, and including, 2.6.1 via the 'rest_api_change_profile_image' function due to missing validation on a user controlled key. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Author-level access and above, to update the profile picture of any user.
Affected configurations
• cozmoslabs user profile picture (< 2.6.2)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-639 Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key weakness
References
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/metronet-profile-picture/tags/2.6.1/metronet-profile-picture.php#L1122 Product
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/metronet-profile-picture/tags/2.6.1/metronet-profile-picture.php#L989 Product
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3105132/ Patch
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/01a3b9ba-b18a-48d9-8365-d10f79fc6a6b?source=cve Third Party Advisory
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/metronet-profile-picture/tags/2.6.1/metronet-profile-picture.php#L1122 Product
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/metronet-profile-picture/tags/2.6.1/metronet-profile-picture.php#L989 Product
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3105132/ Patch
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/01a3b9ba-b18a-48d9-8365-d10f79fc6a6b?source=cve Third Party Advisory