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FKIE_CVE-2024-9518

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2024-10-10 02:15 - Updated: 2026-06-17 08:24
Severity
9.8 (Critical) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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.
References
security@wordfence.comhttps://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/userplus/trunk/functions/user-functions.php?rev=1604604#L47Product
security@wordfence.comhttps://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/2489e649-27f7-4ca0-8655-0957016fa89a?source=cveThird Party Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
wpuserplus userplus *
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          "product": "User registration \u0026 user profile \u2013 UserPlus",
          "vendor": "userplus",
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  "lastModified": "2026-06-17T08:24:43.250",
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