CVE-2024-9518 (GCVE-0-2024-9518)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-10-10 02:06 – Updated: 2026-04-08 16:42
VLAI?
Title
UserPlus <= 2.0 - Unauthenticated Privilege Escalation
Summary
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.
Severity ?
9.8 (Critical)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • CWE-269 - Improper Privilege Management
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
userplus User registration & user profile – UserPlus Affected: 0 , ≤ 2.0 (semver)
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Credits
István Márton
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