Description

WordPress Plugin Ultimate Member-User Profile, Registration, Login, Member Directory, Content Restriction & Membership is prone to a privilege escalation vulnerability. Exploiting this issue may allow attackers to bypass the expected capabilities check and perform otherwise restricted actions; other attacks are also possible. WordPress Plugin Ultimate Member-User Profile, Registration, Login, Member Directory, Content Restriction & Membership version 2.6.6 is vulnerable; prior versions may also be affected.

Remediation

Update to plugin version 2.6.7 or latest

References

https://github.com/gbrsh/CVE-2023-3460/blob/main/exploit.py

https://blog.wpscan.com/hacking-campaign-actively-exploiting-ultimate-member-plugin/

https://www.wordfence.com/blog/2023/06/psa-unpatched-critical-privilege-escalation-vulnerability-in-ultimate-member-plugin-being-actively-exploited/

https://docs.ultimatemember.com/article/1866-security-incident-update-and-recommended-actions

https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/ultimate-member/trunk/readme.txt

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Severity

High

Classification

CVE-2023-3460 CWE-269 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Tags

Missing Update Privilege Escalation