CVE-2022-0779: User-Meta User Meta User Profile Builder And User Management

Medium severity, CVSS 6.5. EPSS: 2.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The User Meta WordPress plugin before 2.4.4 does not validate the filepath parameter of its um_show_uploaded_file AJAX action, which could allow low privileged users such as subscriber to enumerate the local files on the web server via path traversal payloads

Affected products

• User-Meta User Meta User Profile Builder And User Management: before 2.4.4 (fixed in 2.4.4)

Published 2022-06-08. Last modified 2026-06-17.