CVE-2020-36156 (GCVE-0-2020-36156)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2021-01-04 17:22
Modified
2024-08-04 17:23
Severity ?
9.9 (Critical) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/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 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
cve@mitre.orghttps://wordpress.org/plugins/ultimate-member/#developersRelease Notes, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://wpscan.com/vulnerability/dd4c4ece-7206-4788-8747-f0c0f3ab0a53Exploit, 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/dd4c4ece-7206-4788-8747-f0c0f3ab0a53Exploit, 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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