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.
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EUVD EUVD EUVD-2020-23734 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.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-04T17:23:09.556Z

Reserved: 2021-01-04T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2020-36156

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2021-01-04T18:15:13.700

Modified: 2024-11-21T05:28:50.070

Link: CVE-2020-36156

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