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…

PriorityP352high8.8CVSS 3.1

AVNACLPRLUINSUCHIHAH

EPSS

2.03%

78.6th percentile

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

1 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
ultimatemember	ultimate_member	< 2.1.12	2.1.12

CVSS provenance

nvdv3.18.8HIGHCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

nvdv2.06.5MEDIUMAV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P

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