UserPlus <= 2.0 — Authenticated (Editor+) Registration Form Update to Privilege Escalation
CVE-2024-9519Published · Updated Action summary
Affected: ≤2.0No patch available
What to do until a fix ships- Severity
- High7.2
- CVSS
- 7.2CVSS 3.1 · CNA (Wordfence)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HWhat does this vector mean?
AV:NAttack vector- Network
AC:LAttack complexity- Low
PR:HPrivileges required- High
UI:NUser interaction- None
S:UScope- Unchanged
C:HConfidentiality- High
I:HIntegrity- High
A:HAvailability- High
- Required access
- Unknown
- Exploit prediction (EPSS)
- No score
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
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Am I affected?
User registration & user profile – UserPlus userplus
- Affected≤ 2.0
- PatchedNo fix yet
No patched version available.
You are affected if you run ≤ 2.0. No fixed version has been released.
- Check your version: in wp-admin go to Plugins → Installed Plugins and read the version under User registration & user profile – UserPlus.
- No admin access? Run a passive check of your site. It reads public files only.
What to do
- 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.
- Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
- Watch User registration & user profile – UserPlus to get an email when the next vulnerability is published.
Advisory
Source description from Wordfence Intelligence, credited to István Márton.
The UserPlus plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to an improper capability check on the 'save_metabox_form' function in versions up to, and including, 2.0. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with editor-level permissions or above, to update the registration form role to administrator, which leads to privilege escalation.
Exploits & references
Proof-of-concept & detection
No public proof-of-concept or detection template is known for this vulnerability.
Advisories & patches
- Advisorywordfence.com
Related CVEs
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|---|---|---|---|
| Critical9.8 | Privilege Escalation ≤2.0No patch available | CVE-2024-52442 | |
| Critical9.8 | Unauthenticated Privilege Escalation ≤2.0No patch available | CVE-2024-9518 | |
| Medium6.3 | Missing Authorization via Multiple Functions ≤2.0No patch available | CVE-2024-9520 | |
| Medium6.1 | Cross-Site Request Forgery to Stored Cross-Site Scripting ≤2.0No patch available | CVE-2023-0824 |
- Critical9.8Privilege Escalation
≤2.0No patch available
- Critical9.8Unauthenticated Privilege Escalation
≤2.0No patch available
- Medium6.3Missing Authorization via Multiple Functions
≤2.0No patch available
- Medium6.1Cross-Site Request Forgery to Stored Cross-Site Scripting
≤2.0No patch available
Timeline
CVE published
Severity high, CVSS 7.2
Record last updated
Sources & licenses
Wordfence record- Vulnerability data
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