CVE-2020-36155 (GCVE-0-2020-36155)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2021-01-04 17:22
Modified
2024-08-04 17:23
Severity ?
10.0 (Critical) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • n/a
Summary
An issue was discovered in the Ultimate Member plugin before 2.1.12 for WordPress, aka Unauthenticated Privilege Escalation via User Meta. An attacker could supply an array parameter for sensitive metadata, such as the wp_capabilities user meta that defines a user's role. During the registration process, submitted registration details were passed to the update_profile function, and any metadata was accepted, e.g., wp_capabilities[administrator] for Administrator access.
References
cve@mitre.orghttps://wordpress.org/plugins/ultimate-member/#developersRelease Notes, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://wpscan.com/vulnerability/cf13b0f8-5815-4d27-a276-5eff8985fc0bExploit, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://www.wordfence.com/blog/2020/11/critical-privilege-escalation-vulnerabilities-affect-100k-sites-using-ultimate-member-plugin/Exploit, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://wordpress.org/plugins/ultimate-member/#developersRelease Notes, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/cf13b0f8-5815-4d27-a276-5eff8985fc0bExploit, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://www.wordfence.com/blog/2020/11/critical-privilege-escalation-vulnerabilities-affect-100k-sites-using-ultimate-member-plugin/Exploit, Third Party Advisory
Impacted products
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