CVE-2024-0324 — The User Profile Builder – Beautiful User Registration Forms, User Profiles & Us

The User Profile Builder – Beautiful User Registration Forms, User Profiles & User Role Editor plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the 'wppb_two_factor_authentication_settings_update' function

01What is this vulnerability?

The User Profile Builder – Beautiful User Registration Forms, User Profiles & User Role Editor plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the 'wppb_two_factor_authentication_settings_update' function in all versions up to, and including, 3.10.8. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to enable or disable the 2FA…

02Affected products

No structured affected-product list available — see references below for vendor advisories.

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: 2024-02-05T22:15:59.980
• Last modified: 2026-04-08T17:17:20.733

09References

• github.com — https://github.com/WordpressPluginDirectory/profile-builder/blob/main/profile-bu…
• plugins.trac.wordpress.org — https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3022354/
• www.wordfence.com — https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/23caef95-36b6-40aa-8dd…
• github.com — https://github.com/WordpressPluginDirectory/profile-builder/blob/main/profile-bu…
• plugins.trac.wordpress.org — https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3022354/
• www.wordfence.com — https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/23caef95-36b6-40aa-8dd…