CVE-2020-36157 | 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 Roles. Due to the lack of filtering on the role parameter that could be supplied during the registration process, an attacker could supply the role parameter with a WordPress capability (or any custom Ultimate Member role) and effectively be granted those privileges.

Metadata

CVE ID: CVE-2020-36157
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)