CVE-2023-0824 — The User registration & user profile WordPress plugin through 2

The User registration & user profile WordPress plugin through 2.0 does not have CSRF check in some places, and is missing sanitisation as well as escaping, which could allow attackers to make logged-in admin add Stored XSS payloads via a CSRF attack.

01What is this vulnerability?

The User registration & user profile WordPress plugin through 2.0 does not have CSRF check in some places, and is missing sanitisation as well as escaping, which could allow attackers to make logged-in admin add Stored XSS payloads via a CSRF attack.

02Affected products

Vendor	Product	Versions
Unknown	User registration & user profile	0

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

• Patch to a fixed version listed in the vendor advisory (see references below).
• Mitigate with WAF rules, network egress filters, or feature flags where the patch is not yet available.
• Hunt historical logs for exploitation indicators — see Detection signatures below.

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

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07Related CVEs

No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

08Timeline

• Published: 2024-01-16T15:56:28.126Z
• Last modified: 2025-06-20T17:00:42.429Z

09References

• wpscan.com — https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/48a3a542-9130-4524-9d19-ff9eccecb148/