WP User Profile Avatar <= 1.0.5 - Cross-Site Request Forgery to Settings Update
Advisory: The WP User Profile Avatar plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in all versions up to, and including, 1.0.5. This is due to missing or incorrect nonce validation on the wpupa_user_admin() function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to update the plugins setting which controls access to the functionality via a forged request granted they can trick a site administrator into performing an action such as clicking on a link.
Read more about this vulnerability: https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/b056cc98-3bd8-493a-bbf4-9bcee2e52d24?source=api-prod
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