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CVE-2024-10216: WP User Manager – User Profile Builder & Membership <= 2.9.11 - Missing Authorization to Carbon Fields Custom Sidebar Addition/Removal

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2024-11-23 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-862

Description

The WP User Manager – User Profile Builder & Membership plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the 'add_sidebar' and 'remove_sidebar' functions in all versions up to, and including, 2.9.11. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to add or remove a Carbon Fields custom sidebar if the Carbon Fields (carbon-fields) plugin is installed.

Affected products

• WP User Manager: before 2.9.12 — fixed in 2.9.12

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: WP User Manager 2.9.12. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-user-manager/trunk/vendor-dist/htmlburger/carbon-fields/core/Libraries/Sidebar_Manager/Sidebar_Manager.php#L102
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-user-manager/trunk/vendor-dist/htmlburger/carbon-fields/core/Libraries/Sidebar_Manager/Sidebar_Manager.php#L79
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3194404/wp-user-manager/trunk/includes/class-wp-user-manager.php
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/3ab4e9c6-68b0-4113-bff0-c1d3c2d3dea4?source=cve

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