CVE-2021-24170

HIGH 7.5CVE-2021-24170 · Published 05/04/2021 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2021-24170 is a HIGH (CVSS 7.5) vulnerability affecting user profile picture (cozmoslabs).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 5.6%, higher than 92.9% of all vulnerabilities.
Fix: update to 2.5.0 or later.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
user profile picture cozmoslabs	`< 2.5.0`	`2.5.0`

Description

The REST API endpoint get_users in the User Profile Picture WordPress plugin before 2.5.0 returned more information than was required for its functionality to users with the upload_files capability. This included password hashes, hashed user activation keys, usernames, emails, and other less sensitive information.

References

wpscan.com/vulnerability/29fc5b0e-0a5f-4484-a1e6-a0a1206726cc · Exploit
wordfence.com/blog/2021/03/medium-severity-vulnerability-patched-in-user-profile-picture-plugin · Third Party Advisory

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