CVE-2022-0653 - CVE House

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Status published Medium CVE-2022-0653

Profile Builder – User Profile & User Registration Forms <= 3.6.1 Reflected Cross-Site Scripting

6.1 CVSS

Vulnerability Description

The Profile Builder – User Profile & User Registration Forms WordPress plugin is vulnerable to Cross-Site Scripting due to insufficient escaping and sanitization of the site_url parameter found in the ~/assets/misc/fallback-page.php file which allows attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts onto a pages that executes whenever a user clicks on a specially crafted link by an attacker. This affects versions up to and including 3.6.1.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

The following person or organization is credited with identifying this vulnerability, as recorded in the NVD database:

Chloe Chamberland, Wordfence

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Affected Vendor

Cozmoslabs

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Affected Software

Profile Builder – User Profile & User Registration Forms

Vulnerable Versions:

3.6.1

Timeline

Official Publish: February 24th, 2022

Last Modified: January 31st, 2025

Added to House: July 21st, 2026

CVSS Vectors

V3: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Weaknesses (CWE)

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

T1189 Drive-by Compromise

T1059.007 JavaScript

T1539 Steal Web Session Cookie

T1213 Data from Information Repositories

T1567 Exfiltration Over Web Service

T1491.001 Defacement