Ultimate Member – User Profile, User Registration, Login & Membership Plugin <= 2.5.0 — Authenticated (Contributor+) Directory Traversal via Shortcodes
CVE-2022-3361Published · Updated Action summary
Affected: ≤2.5.0Update to 2.5.1 or newer
All remediation steps- Severity
- Medium4.3
- CVSS
- 4.3CVSS 3.1 · CNA (Wordfence)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:NWhat does this vector mean?
AV:NAttack vector- Network
AC:LAttack complexity- Low
PR:LPrivileges required- Low
UI:NUser interaction- None
S:UScope- Unchanged
C:LConfidentiality- Low
I:NIntegrity- None
A:NAvailability- None
- Weakness
- CWE-22 Path Traversal
- Required access
- Unknown
- Exploit prediction (EPSS)
- No score
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
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Am I affected?
Ultimate Member – User Profile, Registration, Login, Member Directory, Content Restriction & Membership Plugin ultimate-member
- Affected≤ 2.5.0
- Patched in2.5.1
Update to 2.5.1 or newer.
You are affected if you run ≤ 2.5.0. Version 2.5.1 and later are not affected by this issue.
- Check your version: in wp-admin go to Plugins → Installed Plugins and read the version under Ultimate Member – User Profile, Registration, Login, Member Directory, Content Restriction & Membership Plugin.
- No admin access? Run a passive check of your site. It reads public files only.
What to do
- Update to version 2.5.1, or a newer patched version
- Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
- Watch Ultimate Member – User Profile, Registration, Login, Member Directory, Content Restriction & Membership Plugin to get an email when the next vulnerability is published.
Advisory
Source description from Wordfence Intelligence, credited to Ruijie Li.
The Ultimate Member plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to directory traversal in versions up to, and including 2.5.0 due to insufficient input validation on the 'template' attribute used in shortcodes. This makes it possible for attackers with administrative privileges to supply arbitrary paths using traversal (../../) to access and include files outside of the intended directory. If an attacker can successfully upload a php file then remote code execution via inclusion may also be possible. Note: for users with less than administrative capabilities, /wp-admin access needs to be enabled for that user in order for this to be exploitable by those users.
Exploits & references
Proof-of-concept & detection
No public proof-of-concept or detection template is known for this vulnerability.
Advisories & patches
- Advisorywordfence.com
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Timeline
CVE published
Severity medium, CVSS 4.3
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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