Unauthenticated Attackers Can Escalate Privileges via UserPlus Plugin

CVE-2024-9518
9.8CRITICAL

Key Information

Vendor
Userplus
Status
User Registration & User Profile – Userplus
Vendor
CVE Published:
10 October 2024

Summary

The UserPlus plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation in versions up to, and including, 2.0 due to insufficient restriction on the 'form_actions' and 'userplus_update_user_profile' functions. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to specify their user role by supplying the 'role' parameter during a registration.

Affected Version(s)

User registration & user profile – UserPlus <= 2.0

CVSS V3.1

Score:
9.8
Severity:
CRITICAL
Confidentiality:
High
Integrity:
High
Availability:
High
Attack Vector:
Network
Attack Complexity:
Low
Privileges Required:
None
User Interaction:
None
Scope:
Unchanged

Timeline

  • Vulnerability published.

  • Disclosed

  • Vulnerability Reserved.

  • Discovered

  • Vendor Notified

Collectors

NVD DatabaseMitre Database

Credit

István Márton
.