CVE-2025-31524

WordPress WP User Profiles plugin <= 2.6.2 - Privilege Escalation vulnerability

State: Published
Severity: 8.8 High
Published: Apr 10, 2025
Updated: Apr 28, 2026
Reserved: Mar 31, 2025

Description

Incorrect Privilege Assignment vulnerability in John James Jacoby WP User Profiles wp-users-profiles allows Privilege Escalation.This issue affects WP User Profiles: from n/a through <= 2.6.2.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	8.8 High	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H	Patchstack

Weaknesses

CWE-266 Incorrect Privilege Assignment

Affected Products

Product	Versions
WP User ProfilesJohn James Jacoby	2.6.2 and earlierAffected

References

https://patchstack.com/database/Wordpress/Plugin/wp-users-profiles/vulnerability/wordpress-wp-user-profiles-plugin-2-6-2-privilege-escalation-vulnerability?_s_id=cvevdb-entry

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