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ghsa-9pq7-v5jj-f484

Vulnerability from github

Published

2022-05-24 17:37

Modified

2022-05-24 17:37

Details

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.

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  "aliases": [
    "CVE-2020-36155"
  ],
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  "id": "GHSA-9pq7-v5jj-f484",
  "modified": "2022-05-24T17:37:55Z",
  "published": "2022-05-24T17:37:55Z",
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    },
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    },
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      "url": "https://www.wordfence.com/blog/2020/11/critical-privilege-escalation-vulnerabilities-affect-100k-sites-using-ultimate-member-plugin"
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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

Summary

References

▼	URL	Tags
	https://wordpress.org/plugins/ultimate-member/#developers	x_refsource_MISC
	https://www.wordfence.com/blog/2020/11/critical-privilege-escalation-vulnerabilities-affect-100k-sites-using-ultimate-member-plugin/	x_refsource_MISC
	https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/cf13b0f8-5815-4d27-a276-5eff8985fc0b	x_refsource_MISC

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	n/a	n/a	Version: n/a

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Nomenclature

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Not patched: This vulnerability was not successfully patched by the user reporting the sighting.

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