CVE-2020-36155 | An issue was discovered in the Ultimate Member plugin before… | CVSS 10.0 CRITICAL

Description

An issue was discovered in the Ultimate Member plugin before 2.1.12 for WordPress, aka Unauthenticated Privilege Escalation via User Meta. An attacker could supply an array parameter for sensitive metadata, such as the wp_capabilities user meta that defines a user's role. During the registration process, submitted registration details were passed to the update_profile function, and any metadata was accepted, e.g., wp_capabilities[administrator] for Administrator access.

Metadata

CVE ID: CVE-2020-36155
State: PUBLISHED
Assigner: mitre
Reserved: 2021-01-04 00:00 UTC
Published: 2021-01-04 17:22 UTC
Last updated: 2024-08-04 17:23 UTC
Vendor / Product: n/a / n/a
Sources: cve.org · NVD

Severity & Metrics

10.0 CRITICAL CVSS 3.1

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

Affected products (1)

Vendor	Product	Platform	Versions
n/a	n/a	—	n/a

Weakness (CWE)

CWE	Source	Description
—	cna	n/a

CVSS scores (1)

Score	Severity	Version	Source	Vector
10.0	CRITICAL	3.1	cna	CVSS:3.1/AC:L/AV:N/A:H/C:H/I:H/PR:N/S:C/UI:N

References (3)