CVE-2020-36156: An issue was discovered in the Ultimate Member plugin before 2.1.12 for WordPress, aka Authenticated Privilege Escalation via Profile Update. Any user with wp-admin access to the profile.php page coul

critical Affects ultimate-member (WordPress plugin). Feed 2026.10.29.1, updated 2026-10-28; published 2021-01-04; advisory modified 2026-06-17.

An issue was discovered in the Ultimate Member plugin before 2.1.12 for WordPress, aka Authenticated Privilege Escalation via Profile Update. Any user with wp-admin access to the profile.php page coul

Package: ultimate-member (WordPress plugin) WordPress
Affected versions: <2.1.12
Fixed in: 2.1.12
Severity: critical CVSS 9.9
Exploitation: not on CISA KEV · EPSS 2% (81.2th percentile)
Published: 2021-01-04
Source: nvd

References

CWE-269

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