CVE-2023-6009 (GCVE-0-2023-6009)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-11-22 15:33 – Updated: 2025-06-10 13:29
VLAI?
Summary
The UserPro plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation in versions up to, and including, 5.1.4 due to insufficient restriction on the 'userpro_update_user_profile' function. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with minimal permissions such as a subscriber, to modify their user role by supplying the 'wp_capabilities' parameter during a profile update.
Severity ?
8.8 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
n/a UserPro - Community and User Profile WordPress Plugin Affected: * , ≤ 5.1.4 (semver)
Credits
István Márton
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