CVE-2020-36156

9.9CRITICAL

Key Information:

Vendor
Wordpress
Status
Ultimate Member
Vendor
CVE Published:
4 January 2021

Summary

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.

References

https://wordpress.org/plugins/ultimate-member/#developers
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https://www.wordfence.com/blog/2020/11/critical-privilege...
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https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/dd4c4ece-7206-4788-8747-...
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CVSS V3.1

Score:
9.9
Severity:
CRITICAL
Confidentiality:
High
Integrity:
High
Availability:
High
Attack Vector:
Network
Attack Complexity:
Low
Privileges Required:
Low
User Interaction:
None
Scope:
Changed

Timeline

  • Vulnerability published

  • Vulnerability Reserved

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