CVE-2020-36156

Published: Jan 4, 2021

Modified: Aug 4, 2024

PUBLISHED

CVSS v3.1

9.9

CRITICAL

Description

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.

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	affected `n/a`

CVSS v3.1 Details

CVSS v3.1 Vector

CVSS:3.1/AC:L/AV:N/A:H/C:H/I:H/PR:L/S:C/UI:N

Attack Complexity

Low

Attack Vector

Network

Availability

High

Confidentiality

High

Integrity

High

Privileges Required

Low

Scope

Changed

User Interaction

None

References

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/dd4c4ece-7206-4788-8747-f0c0f3ab0a53

x_refsource_MISC

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CVE-2020-36156

Description

Affected Products

CVSS v3.1 Details

References