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GHSA-V28V-PH75-H265

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2022-05-24 17:37 – Updated: 2022-05-24 17:37

Details

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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  "id": "GHSA-v28v-ph75-h265",
  "modified": "2022-05-24T17:37:55Z",
  "published": "2022-05-24T17:37:55Z",
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    },
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      "url": "https://www.wordfence.com/blog/2020/11/critical-privilege-escalation-vulnerabilities-affect-100k-sites-using-ultimate-member-plugin"
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CVE-2020-36156 (GCVE-0-2020-36156)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2021-01-04 17:22 – Updated: 2024-08-04 17:23

Summary

Severity

9.9 (Critical)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AC:L/AV:N/A:H/C:H/I:H/PR:L/S:C/UI:N

CWE

Assigner

mitre

References

3 references

URL	Tags
https://wordpress.org/plugins/ultimate-member/#de…	x_refsource_MISC
https://www.wordfence.com/blog/2020/11/critical-p…	x_refsource_MISC
https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/dd4c4ece-7206-47…	x_refsource_MISC

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Nomenclature

Seen: The vulnerability was mentioned, discussed, or observed by the user.
Confirmed: The vulnerability has been validated from an analyst's perspective.
Published Proof of Concept: A public proof of concept is available for this vulnerability.
Exploited: The vulnerability was observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.

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GHSA-V28V-PH75-H265

CVE-2020-36156 (GCVE-0-2020-36156)

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