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CVE-2024-9519: UserPlus <= 2.0 - Authenticated (Editor+) Registration Form Update to Privilege Escalation

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.2 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-266

Description

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.

Affected products

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

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/userplus/trunk/admin/admin-post-metaboxes.php?rev=1627771#L62
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/1148b18d-7af1-41c6-bd7f-1b2d53cb44e6?source=cve

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