CVE-2025-48340
Official description Straight from the sourceThe vendor's or NVD's own wording, published unedited. Authoritative, but often terse — it says what broke, rarely what to do.
NVD · uneditedCross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in Danny Vink User Profile Meta Manager user-profile-meta allows Privilege Escalation.This issue affects User Profile Meta Manager: from n/a through <= 1.02.
Technical summary Written by usOur analysis, written from the advisory, the CVSS vector and the affected-version data. It adds context the advisory leaves out, and never invents facts that are not in the source.
dbcve analysis · moderate confidenceA Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the User Profile Meta Manager WordPress plugin (versions up to 1.02) enables attackers to trick authenticated users into performing unintended actions that lead to privilege escalation, likely through unprotected state-changing operations such as modifying user meta data.
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CVSS breakdown How the score is builtThe industry scoring standard. It rates how the flaw is reached, what it takes to exploit, and what an attacker gains — the score is derived from those, not the other way round.
From the vector- Attack vector
- Network
- Complexity
- Low
- Privileges
- None
- User interaction
- None
- Scope
- Unchanged
- Confidentiality
- High
- Integrity
- High
- Availability
- High
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Am I affected? How to checkSteps we derive from the advisory and the affected-version data, so you can decide whether this CVE reaches your setup. They are a guide, not a scan — your own configuration is the authority.
dbcve checksWork through these to decide whether this CVE applies to you.
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Locate the User Profile Meta Manager pluginAccess your WordPress site via FTP or file manager and navigate to /wp-content/plugins/ and look for a folder named 'user-profile-meta-manager' or similar. Alternatively, in the WordPress admin dashboard, go to Plugins > Installed Plugins and search for 'User Profile Meta Manager'.Affected if The plugin is not found in either location.
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Identify the installed versionIf the plugin is found, open the main plugin file (usually named something like user-profile-meta-manager.php) and look for a version comment or header that states 'Version: X.XX'. Alternatively, check the version column in WordPress admin under Plugins > Installed Plugins.Affected if The version is 1.02 or lower.
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Inspect plugin files for nonce implementationUsing a code editor or file viewer, open the main plugin PHP files and search for occurrences of 'wp_nonce_field', 'wp_create_nonce', 'check_admin_referer', or 'check_ajax_referer'. Focus on functions that handle user meta updates such as 'update_user_meta', 'add_user_meta', or forms that submit to user profile update endpoints.Affected if No nonce verification functions are found near code that modifies user meta data, or the nonce checks are missing entirely.
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Check AJAX endpoints for CSRF protectionSearch the plugin files for 'admin-ajax.php' or 'wp_ajax_' action hooks. Examine each AJAX handler that modifies user data to verify it calls nonce verification functions like 'check_ajax_referer' or 'wp_verify_nonce' before processing the request.Affected if AJAX handlers that modify user meta do not perform nonce validation, or the nonce is checked only after the operation completes.
You are affected if the User Profile Meta Manager plugin is installed at version 1.02 or lower and the code that handles user meta modifications lacks proper nonce verification for CSRF protection.
Generated from the published advisory. Verify against your own configuration.
Remediation Closing itWhat it takes to close this. Where a vendor fix exists we point at it; where none exists we say so plainly, and can build one. Effort estimates are scoped from the advisory, not from your codebase.
From vendor dataImplement anti-CSRF tokens (nonces) on all forms and AJAX endpoints that modify user profile metadata, and validate the nonce on the server side before processing any state-changing requests.
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The advisory tells you what broke. It rarely tells you what actually worked. If you’ve dealt with this one, that detail is what the next engineer is searching for.
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