🔐 CVE Alert

CVE-2024-9518

CRITICAL 9.8

UserPlus <= 2.0 - Unauthenticated Privilege Escalation

CVSS Score
9.8
EPSS Score
0.0%
EPSS Percentile
0th

The UserPlus plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation in versions up to, and including, 2.0 due to insufficient restriction on the 'form_actions' and 'userplus_update_user_profile' functions. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to specify their user role by supplying the 'role' parameter during a registration.

CWE CWE-269
Vendor userplus
Product user registration & user profile – userplus
Published Oct 10, 2024
Last Updated Apr 8, 2026
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CVSS v3 Breakdown

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack Vector
Attack Complexity
Privileges Required
User Interaction
Scope
Confidentiality
Integrity
Availability

Affected Versions

userplus / User registration & user profile – UserPlus
0 ≤ 2.0

References

NVD ↗ CVE.org ↗ EPSS Data ↗
wordfence.com: https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/2489e649-27f7-4ca0-8655-0957016fa89a?source=cve plugins.trac.wordpress.org: https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/userplus/trunk/functions/user-functions.php?rev=1604604#L47

Credits

István Márton