Ultimate Member – User Profile, Registration, Login, Member Directory, Content Restriction & Membership Plugin, CVE-2020-36156

CVE, Research URL: CVE-2020-36156
Home page URL: Security reports for Ultimate Member – User Profile, Registration, Login, Member Directory, Content Restriction & Membership Plugin
Application: Ultimate Member – User Profile, Registration, Login, Member Directory, Content Restriction & Membership Plugin
Published on: Jan 04, 2021
Research 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 versions: max 2.1.12.
Status: vulnerable

Ultimate Member – User Profile, Registration, Login, Member Directory, Content Restriction &amp; Membership Plugin, CVE-2020-36156