Vulnerability CVE-2024-5639
Published: 2024-06-21

Description:
The User Profile Picture plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Insecure Direct Object Reference in all versions up to, and including, 2.6.1 via the 'rest_api_change_profile_image' function due to missing validation on a user controlled key. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Author-level access and above, to update the profile picture of any user.

 References:
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/01a3b9ba-b18a-48d9-8365-d10f79fc6a6b?source=cve
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/metronet-profile-picture/tags/2.6.1/metronet-profile-picture.php#L989
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/metronet-profile-picture/tags/2.6.1/metronet-profile-picture.php#L1122
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3105132/
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