01 Record
CVE-2020-36157
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
CriticalPUBLISHEDCNA: mitre
CNA base score10.0 CVSS v3.xCVSS:3.1/AC:L/AV:N/A:H/C:H/I:H/PR:N/S:C/UI:N
02 Description
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
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 2.99% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 86.8% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- 9.8 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.
- NVD CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-17.
- Red Hat severity
- No Red Hat rating. Red Hat rates the CVEs that affect its products.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2021-01-04 17:22Z5 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-04 17:23Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2021-01-04
- Assigning CNA
- mitre
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Critical (CVSS 10.0)
- CNA CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AC:L/AV:N/A:H/C:H/I:H/PR:N/S:C/UI:N
- Weaknesses
- No CWE assigned
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- 3a4f7b8e7d0a151b6701a34f885eef74d35012e682545fae69228431511395ad
05 Affected products
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