WP Front End Profile <= 0.2.1 - Privilege Escalation

9.8
Improper Privilege Management
CVE CVE-2019-15111
CVSS 9.8 (Critical)
Publicly Published September 14, 2016
Last Updated June 10, 2025
Researcher Phil Wylie (mustardbees) - Kanuka

Description

The WP Front End Profile plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Privilege Escalation in versions up to, and including, 0.2.1. This is due to the registration form not properly validating the user meta that is supplied allowing attackers to set the wp_capabilities user meta. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to gain access to an account with full administrative privileges.

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Vulnerability Details for WP Frontend Profile

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug wp-front-end-profile (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Remediation Update to version 0.2.2, or a newer patched version
Affected Version
  • <= 0.2.1
Patched Version
  • 0.2.2

Recent vulnerabilities in WP Frontend Profile

# Title CVE ID CVSS Researchers Date
1 WP Frontend Profile <= 1.3.8 - Cross-Site Request Forgery to Unauthorized User Account Approval or Rejection CVE-2026-1644 4.3 johska March 6, 2026
2 Frontend Profile <= 1.3.9 - Missing Authorization CVE-2026-39688 5.3 Legion Hunter February 23, 2026
3 WP Frontend Profile <= 1.3.1 - Unauthenticated Privilege Escalation CVE-2023-51483 9.8 Rafie Muhammad December 27, 2023
4 Freemius SDK <= 2.5.9 - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting via fs_request_get CVE-2023-33999 6.1 Rafie Muhammad July 18, 2023
5 Freemius SDK <= 2.4.2 - Missing Authorization Checks CVE-2022-4974 6.3 March 4, 2022
6 WP Frontend Profile <= 1.2.1 - Cross-Site Request Forgery 8.8 Julio Potier May 19, 2020
7 WP Front End Profile <= 0.2.1 - Stored Cross-Site Scripting CVE-2019-15110 6.4 Phil Wylie (mustardbees) September 14, 2016

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