CVE-2020-36157 (GCVE-0-2020-36157)
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 Roles. Due to the lack of filtering on the role parameter that could be supplied during the registration process, an attacker could supply the role parameter with a WordPress capability (or any custom Ultimate Member role) and effectively be granted those privileges.
References
cve@mitre.orghttps://wordpress.org/plugins/ultimate-member/#developersRelease Notes, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://wpscan.com/vulnerability/33f059c5-58e5-44b9-bb27-793c3cedef3bExploit, 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/33f059c5-58e5-44b9-bb27-793c3cedef3bExploit, 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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