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CVE-2024-10528: Ultimate Member <= 2.8.9 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Arbitrary User Profile Picture Update

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2024-11-21 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-862

Description

The Ultimate Member – User Profile, Registration, Login, Member Directory, Content Restriction & Membership Plugin plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized profile picture updates due to a missing capability check on the wp_ajax_um_resize_image() and ajax_resize_image() functions in all versions up to, and including, 2.8.9. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, to update the profile pictures of other users.

Affected products

• ultimatemember Ultimate Member – User Profile, Registration, Login, Member Directory, Content Restriction & Membership P: before 2.9.0 — fixed in 2.9.0

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: ultimatemember Ultimate Member – User Profile, Registration, Login, Member Directory, Content Restriction & Membership P 2.9.0. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://github.com/ultimatemember/ultimatemember/blob/ab05bc570a8ba6449cd470791be1c0670eb9c203/includes/core/class-files.php#L332
• https://github.com/ultimatemember/ultimatemember/blob/ab05bc570a8ba6449cd470791be1c0670eb9c203/includes/core/class-files.php#L371
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=3186722%40ultimate-member&new=3186722%40ultimate-member&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/0a9793b6-2186-46ef-b204-d8f8f154ebf3?source=cve

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