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CVE-2020-36156

CRITICAL
9.9
CVSS Severity Score
EPSS Score0.0790%
EPSS Percentile35.61th
PublishedJan 4, 2021
Last ModifiedNov 21, 2024

Vulnerability Description

An issue was discovered in the Ultimate Member plugin before 2.1.12 for WordPress, aka Authenticated Privilege Escalation via Profile Update. Any user with wp-admin access to the profile.php page could supply the parameter um-role with a value set to any role (e.g., Administrator) during a profile update, and effectively escalate their privileges.

Affected Platforms (CPE)

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Ultimatemember

Ultimate Member

< 2.1.12

References & Advisories

🔗 https://wordpress.org/plugins/ultimate-member/#developers
🔗 https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/dd4c4ece-7206-4788-8747-f0c0f3ab0a53
🔗 https://www.wordfence.com/blog/2020/11/critical-privilege-escalation-vulnerabilities-affect-100k-sites-using-ultimate-member-plugin/
🔗 https://wordpress.org/plugins/ultimate-member/#developers
🔗 https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/dd4c4ece-7206-4788-8747-f0c0f3ab0a53
🔗 https://www.wordfence.com/blog/2020/11/critical-privilege-escalation-vulnerabilities-affect-100k-sites-using-ultimate-member-plugin/

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