Cyber Resilience

CVE-2020-36157

CriticalPublic PoC

Published: 04 January 2021

Published
04 January 2021
Modified
21 November 2024
KEV Added
Patch
CVSS Score v3.1 10.0 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0152 81.7th percentile
Risk Priority 21 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2020-36157 is a critical-severity an unspecified weakness vulnerability in Ultimatemember Ultimate Member. Its CVSS base score is 10.0 (Critical).

Operationally, ranked in the top 18.3% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog; a public proof-of-concept is referenced.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

An issue was discovered in the Ultimate Member plugin before 2.1.12 for WordPress, aka Unauthenticated Privilege Escalation via User Roles. Due to the lack of filtering on the role parameter that could be supplied during the registration process, an attacker…

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could supply the role parameter with a WordPress capability (or any custom Ultimate Member role) and effectively be granted those privileges.

CWE(s)

Related Threats

No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.

Affected Assets

ultimatemember
ultimate member
≤ 2.1.12

Mitigating Controls

No mitigating controls mapped yet. The per-CVE control annotator has not reached this CVE.

References