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CVE-2025-3921: PeproDev Ultimate Profile Solutions 1.9.1 - 7.5.2 - Missing Authorization to Limited Unauthenticated Arbitrary User Meta Update via handel_ajax_req Function

• Severity: high (CVSS 8.2 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: 2025-05-07 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-285

Description

The PeproDev Ultimate Profile Solutions plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the handel_ajax_req() function in versions 1.9.1 to 7.5.2. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to update arbitrary user's metadata which can be leveraged to block an administrator from accessing their site when wp_capabilities is set to 0.

Affected products

• PeproDev Ultimate Profile Solutions: from 1.9.1 through 7.5.2

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/peprodev-ups/tags/7.5.2/login/login.php#L1483
• https://wordpress.org/plugins/peprodev-ups/#developers
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/a881ca02-cef9-4f4b-8a62-e241c4c80004?source=cve

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