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CVE-2024-9518: UserPlus <= 2.0 - Unauthenticated Privilege Escalation

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2024-10-10 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-269

Description

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.

Affected products

• userplus User registration & user profile – UserPlus: through 2.0

References

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

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