CVE-2024-9518 in UserPlus Plugin

Summary

by MITRE • 10/10/2024

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.

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• Reservation: 10/04/2024
• Disclosure: 10/10/2024
• Moderation: accepted
• Entry: VDB-279837
• CPE: ready
• CWE: CWE-287 (confirmed)
• CVSS: 7.3 (VulDB)
• EPSS: 0.00503
• KEV: no
• Activities: very low
• Sector: Hostingprovider

Sources

• MITRE: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-9518
• NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-9518
• CVE Details: https://www.cvedetails.com/cve/CVE-2024-9518/