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.
References
Link | Resource |
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https://wordpress.org/plugins/ultimate-member/#developers | Release Notes Third Party Advisory |
https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/dd4c4ece-7206-4788-8747-f0c0f3ab0a53 | Exploit Third Party Advisory |
https://www.wordfence.com/blog/2020/11/critical-privilege-escalation-vulnerabilities-affect-100k-sites-using-ultimate-member-plugin/ | Exploit Third Party Advisory |
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MITRE Information
Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: mitre
Published: 2021-01-04T17:22:25
Updated: 2021-01-04T17:22:25
Reserved: 2021-01-04T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2020-36156
JSON object: View
NVD Information
Status : Analyzed
Published: 2021-01-04T18:15:13.700
Modified: 2021-01-08T14:55:33.297
Link: CVE-2020-36156
JSON object: View
Redhat Information
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CWE