User registration & user profile – UserPlus, CVE-2024-9518
- CVE, Research URL
- Application
- Published on
- Oct 10, 2024
- Research Description
- The UserPlus plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation in versions up to, and including, 2.0 due to insufficient restriction on the 'form_actions' and 'userplus_update_user_profile' functions. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to specify their user role by supplying the 'role' parameter during a registration.
- Affected versions
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Min -, max 2.0.
- Status
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vulnerable