Ultimate Member – User Profile, Registration, Login, Member Directory, Content Restriction & Membership Plugin, CVE-2020-36157

CVE, Research URL: CVE-2020-36157
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 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.
Affected versions: max 2.1.12.
Status: vulnerable

Ultimate Member – User Profile, Registration, Login, Member Directory, Content Restriction &amp; Membership Plugin, CVE-2020-36157