User Management <= 1.2 - Authenticated (Subscriber+) Privilege Escalation

Incorrect Privilege Assignment
CVE CVE-2025-22736
CVSS High (8.8)
Publicly Published January 14, 2025
Last Updated January 22, 2025
Researcher ardias
Description

The User Management plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation in all versions up to, and including, 1.2. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to elevate their privileges to that of an administrator.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug user-management (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? No
Affected Version
  • <= 1.2
Patched Version
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