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CVE-2022-0884: Profile Builder < 3.6.8 - Admin+ Stored Cross-Site Scripting

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2022-04-04 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-79

Description

The Profile Builder WordPress plugin before 3.6.8 does not sanitise and escape Form Fields titles and description, which could allow high privilege user such as admin to perform Criss-Site Scripting attacks even when unfiltered_html is disallowed

Affected products

• cozmoslabs User Profile Builder – Beautiful User Registration Forms, User Profiles & User Role Editor: before 3.6.8 — fixed in 3.6.8

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: cozmoslabs User Profile Builder – Beautiful User Registration Forms, User Profiles & User Role Editor 3.6.8. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/2690776
• https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/af06b96c-105f-429c-b2ad-c8c823897dba
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/2690776
• https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/af06b96c-105f-429c-b2ad-c8c823897dba

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