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Paper/Archive/CVE-2020-36156

CVE-2020-36156

mitre — An issue was discovered in the Ultimate Member plugin before 2.1.12 for WordPress, aka Authenticated Privilege Escalation via Profile Upd…

EPSS 2%CVSS 9.9
critical.is priorityof 100
46
CVSS 9.9 (CNA)9.9 / 10 × 3029.7Not in CISA KEV+300.0EPSS percentile 81.3.813 × 2016.3No public exploit+100.0SSVC exploitation: unknown+100.0
Description · from the CVE record

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

ProductAffectedFixed inSource
n/an/a–CNA

Scores by source

mitre (CNA)9.9CVSS:3.1/AC:L/AV:N/A:H/C:H/I:H/PR:L/S:C/UI:N

References

refwordpress.org/plugins/ultimate-member/#developersrefwordfence.com/blog/2020/11/critical-privilege-escalation-vulnerabilities-affect-100k-sites-using-ultimate-member-pluginrefwpscan.com/vulnerability/dd4c4ece-7206-4788-8747-f0c0f3ab0a53