CVE-2023-3460 (GCVE-0-2023-3460)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-07-04 07:23 – Updated: 2024-11-25 16:47
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Title
Ultimate Member < 2.6.7 - Unauthenticated Privilege Escalation
Summary
The Ultimate Member WordPress plugin before 2.6.7 does not prevent visitors from creating user accounts with arbitrary capabilities, effectively allowing attackers to create administrator accounts at will. This is actively being exploited in the wild.
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CWE
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Vendor Product Version
Unknown Ultimate Member Affected: 0 , < 2.6.7 (custom)
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Credits
Unknown Marc Montpas WPScan
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