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Multiple E-plugins (Various Versions) — Authenticated (Subscriber+) Privilege Escalation

CVE-2020-36666Published · Updated

Action summary

WP Membership: Affected: <1.5.7Update to 1.5.7 or newer

Hotel Listings: Affected: <1.3.7Update to 1.3.7 or newer

Directory Pro: Affected: <1.9.5Update to 1.9.5 or newer

Institutions Directory: Affected: <1.3.1Update to 1.3.1 or newer

Photographer Directory: Affected: <1.0.9Update to 1.0.9 or newer

Lawyer Directory: Affected: <1.2.9Update to 1.2.9 or newer

Real Estate Pro - WordPress Plugin: Affected: <1.7.1Update to 1.7.1 or newer

Fitness Trainer- Training Membership Plugin: Affected: <1.4.1Update to 1.4.1 or newer

Hospital & Doctor Directory: Affected: <1.3.6Update to 1.3.6 or newer

producer-retailer: Affected: all versionsNo patch available

Final User - WP Front-end User Profiles: Affected: <1.2.2Update to 1.2.2 or newer

What to do until a fix ships
Watch plugin
Severity
High8.8
CVSS
8.8
CVSS 3.1 · CNA (Wordfence)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
What does this vector mean?
AV:N Attack vector
Network
AC:L Attack complexity
Low
PR:L Privileges required
Low
UI:N User interaction
None
S:U Scope
Unchanged
C:H Confidentiality
High
I:H Integrity
High
A:H Availability
High
Weakness
CWE-266 Incorrect Privilege Assignment
Required access
Unknown
Exploit prediction (EPSS)
No score
CISA KEV
Not listed
On this page8

Am I affected?

WP Membership wp-membership

  1. Affected< 1.5.7
  2. Patched in1.5.7

Update to 1.5.7 or newer.

You are affected if you run < 1.5.7. Version 1.5.7 and later are not affected by this issue.

Hotel Listings hotel-listing

  1. Affected< 1.3.7
  2. Patched in1.3.7

Update to 1.3.7 or newer.

You are affected if you run < 1.3.7. Version 1.3.7 and later are not affected by this issue.

Directory Pro directory-pro

  1. Affected< 1.9.5
  2. Patched in1.9.5

Update to 1.9.5 or newer.

You are affected if you run < 1.9.5. Version 1.9.5 and later are not affected by this issue.

Institutions Directory institutions-directory

  1. Affected< 1.3.1
  2. Patched in1.3.1

Update to 1.3.1 or newer.

You are affected if you run < 1.3.1. Version 1.3.1 and later are not affected by this issue.

Photographer Directory photographer-directory

  1. Affected< 1.0.9
  2. Patched in1.0.9

Update to 1.0.9 or newer.

You are affected if you run < 1.0.9. Version 1.0.9 and later are not affected by this issue.

Lawyer Directory lawyer-directory

  1. Affected< 1.2.9
  2. Patched in1.2.9

Update to 1.2.9 or newer.

You are affected if you run < 1.2.9. Version 1.2.9 and later are not affected by this issue.

Real Estate Pro - WordPress Plugin real-estate-pro

  1. Affected< 1.7.1
  2. Patched in1.7.1

Update to 1.7.1 or newer.

You are affected if you run < 1.7.1. Version 1.7.1 and later are not affected by this issue.

Fitness Trainer- Training Membership Plugin fitness-trainer

  1. Affected< 1.4.1
  2. Patched in1.4.1

Update to 1.4.1 or newer.

You are affected if you run < 1.4.1. Version 1.4.1 and later are not affected by this issue.

Hospital & Doctor Directory doctor-listing

  1. Affected< 1.3.6
  2. Patched in1.3.6

Update to 1.3.6 or newer.

You are affected if you run < 1.3.6. Version 1.3.6 and later are not affected by this issue.

producer-retailer producer-retailer

  1. Affectedall versions
  2. PatchedNo fix yet

No patched version available.

You are affected if you run all versions. No fixed version has been released.

Final User - WP Front-end User Profiles final-user-wp-frontend-user-profiles

  1. Affected< 1.2.2
  2. Patched in1.2.2

Update to 1.2.2 or newer.

You are affected if you run < 1.2.2. Version 1.2.2 and later are not affected by this issue.

  • Check your version: in wp-admin go to Plugins → Installed Plugins and read the version under WP Membership.
  • No admin access? Run a passive check of your site. It reads public files only.

What to do

  1. Update to version 1.5.7, or a newer patched version
  2. Update to version 1.3.7, or a newer patched version
  3. Update to version 1.9.5, or a newer patched version
  4. Update to version 1.3.1, or a newer patched version
  5. Update to version 1.0.9, or a newer patched version
  6. Update to version 1.2.9, or a newer patched version
  7. Update to version 1.7.1, or a newer patched version
  8. Update to version 1.4.1, or a newer patched version
  9. Update to version 1.3.6, or a newer patched version
  10. No known patch available. Please review the vulnerability's details in depth and employ mitigations based on your organization's risk tolerance. It may be best to uninstall the affected software and find a replacement.
  11. Update to version 1.2.2, or a newer patched version
  12. Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
  13. Watch WP Membership to get an email when the next vulnerability is published.

Advisory

Source description from Wordfence Intelligence, credited to Omar Badran.

Multiple plugins by the vendor E-plugins are vulnerable to privilege escalation due to insufficient restriction on several functions called via AJAX actions that set a user's role based on supplied role information. This makes it possible authenticated, subscriber-level and above attackers to elevate their privileges to that of an administrator.

Exploits & references

Proof-of-concept & detection

No public proof-of-concept or detection template is known for this vulnerability.

Advisories & patches

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≤1.6.4No patch available
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Timeline

  1. CVE published

    Severity high, CVSS 8.8

  2. Record last updated

Sources & licenses

Wordfence record
Vulnerability data
Wordfence Intelligence. [object Object] Licensed under the CC BY-SA 4.0.
CVE® identifiers
[object Object]. Used under the CVE Program. CVE® is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation.
CVSS / CWE
National Vulnerability Database (NVD), shown unmodified. This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.
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Summary, remediation guidance and page layout © VulnCrest. Not sourced from NVD.

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