Ultimate Member <= 2.1.11 - Authenticated Privilege Escalation via Profile Update

Improper Privilege Management
CVE CVE-2020-36156
CVSS Critical (9.9)
Publicly Published November 9, 2020
Last Updated January 22, 2024
Researcher Chloe Chamberland
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.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug ultimate-member (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 2.1.12
Patched Version
  • 2.1.12
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