User Meta Manager Plugin < 3.4.7 - Privilege Escalation

Missing Authorization
CVE Not available
CVSS High (8.8)
Publicly Published February 2, 2016
Last Updated January 22, 2024
Researcher Panagiotis Vagenas
Description

The User Meta Manager plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to authorization bypass due to a missing capability check on the umm_update_user_meta() function in versions up to, and including, 3.4.6. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level permissions and above, to escalate their account to an administrator-level account by updating their user meta.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug user-meta-manager (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 3.4.7
Patched Version
  • 3.4.7
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