CVE-2023-3460

Ultimate Member < 2.6.7 - Unauthenticated Privilege Escalation

Published: Jul 4, 2023Updated: Nov 21, 2024 Sources: CVE List NVD

9.8CRITICAL

Description

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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CVSS Vector Breakdown

Exploitability

AV:NAttack Vector

Network

AC:LAttack Complexity

Low

PR:NPrivileges Required

None

UI:NUser Interaction

None

Scope

S:UScope

Unchanged

Impact

C:HConfidentiality

High

I:HIntegrity

High

A:HAvailability

High

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Affected Products

ultimatemember

commercialaka ultimate member, ultimate member user profile & membership, ultimate member – user profile

ultimate memberOn-premCMS Plugin

Web & CMS Plugins / wordpress-plugin

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Exploitability

1 exploit source identified

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References

https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/694235c7-4469-4ffd-a722-9225b19e98d7

wpscan.com

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

blog.wpscan.com

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