UserPlus <= 2.0 - Unauthenticated Privilege Escalation

Improper Privilege Management
CVE CVE-2024-9518
CVSS Critical (9.8)
Publicly Published October 9, 2024
Last Updated October 10, 2024
Researcher István Márton
Description

The UserPlus plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation in versions up to, and including, 2.0 due to insufficient restriction on the 'form_actions' and 'userplus_update_user_profile' functions. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to specify their user role by supplying the 'role' parameter during a registration.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug userplus (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? No
Affected Version
  • <= 2.0
Patched Version
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