CVE-2020-36156

State: Published
Severity: 9.9 Critical
Published: Jan 4, 2021
Updated: Aug 4, 2024
Reserved: Jan 4, 2021

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.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	9.9 Critical	CVSS:3.1/AC:L/AV:N/A:H/C:H/I:H/PR:L/S:C/UI:N	mitre

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

Product	Versions
n/an/a	n/aAffected

References

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

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