🔐 CVE Alert

CVE-2023-2297

CRITICAL 9.8

Profile Builder – User Profile & User Registration Forms <= 3.9.0 - Insecure Password Reset Mechanism

CVSS Score
9.8
EPSS Score
0.0%
EPSS Percentile
0th

The Profile Builder – User Profile & User Registration Forms plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized password resets in versions up to, and including 3.9.0. This is due to the plugin using native password reset functionality, with insufficient validation on the password reset function (wppb_front_end_password_recovery). The function uses the plaintext value of a password reset key instead of a hashed value which means it can easily be retrieved and subsequently used. An attacker can leverage CVE-2023-0814, or another vulnerability like SQL Injection in another plugin or theme installed on the site to successfully exploit this vulnerability.

CWE CWE-620
Vendor cozmoslabs
Product user profile builder – beautiful user registration forms, user profiles & user role editor
Published Apr 26, 2023
Last Updated Apr 8, 2026
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CVSS v3 Breakdown

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack Vector
Attack Complexity
Privileges Required
User Interaction
Scope
Confidentiality
Integrity
Availability

Affected Versions

cozmoslabs / User Profile Builder – Beautiful User Registration Forms, User Profiles & User Role Editor
0 ≤ 3.9.0

References

NVD ↗ CVE.org ↗ EPSS Data ↗
wordfence.com: https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/e731292a-4f95-46eb-889e-b00d58f3444e?source=cve plugins.trac.wordpress.org: https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=2864329%40profile-builder&new=2864329%40profile-builder&sfp_email=&sfph_mail= lana.codes: https://lana.codes/lanavdb/512e7307-04a5-4d8b-8f79-f75f37784a9f/ wordfence.com: https://www.wordfence.com/blog/2023/03/vulnerability-patched-in-cozmolabs-profile-builder-plugin-information-disclosure-leads-to-account-takeover/

Credits

István Márton