CVE-2020-36156

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.

Affected products

Ultimate Member

Ultimatemember Ultimate Member

< 2.1.12

Fix

Available

CVSS 3.1

9.9 CRITICAL

EPSS

2.0% (80th percentile)

Weakness

CWE-269

NVD status

Modified

Published

2021-01-04