CVEvulnerability
CVE-2020-36156
8.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2021-01-04
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 9.9 CRITICAL — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 8.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 6.5 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-269
Description
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 configurations
• ultimatemember ultimate member (< 2.1.12)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-269 Improper Privilege Management weakness
References
- 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
- 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