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CVE-2024-10537: WP User Manager – User Profile Builder & Membership <= 2.9.11 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) User Meta Key Enumeration

• 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 access of data due to a missing capability check on the validate_user_meta_key() function in all versions up to, and including, 2.9.11. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to enumerate user meta keys.

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/changeset/3194404/wp-user-manager/trunk/includes/actions.php
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/9e9a5b7e-db74-4c66-a659-85b2509fded4?source=cve

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