CVE-2020-36156 - OpenCVE

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.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required Low

Scope Changed

Confidentiality Impact High

Integrity Impact High

Availability Impact High

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Low

Authentication Single

Confidentiality Impact Partial

Integrity Impact Partial

Availability Impact Partial

AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

Vendors	Products
Ultimatemember	Ultimate Member

Configuration 1 [-]

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References

Link	Providers
https://wordpress.org/plugins/ultimate-member/#developers
https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/dd4c4ece-7206-4788-8747-f0c0f3ab0a53
https://www.wordfence.com/blog/2020/11/critical-privilege-escalation-vulnerabilities-affect-100k-sites-using-ultimate-member-plugin/

History

No history.

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2021-01-04T17:22:25

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

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

Link: CVE-2020-36156

Vulnrichment

No data.

NVD

Status : Analyzed

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

Modified: 2021-01-08T14:55:33.297

Link: CVE-2020-36156

Redhat

No data.

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