TI-2024-08831 Aliases CVE-2024-9518 GHSA-75jv-g4w5-cpjq

UserPlus <= 2.0 - Unauthenticated Privilege Escalation

MEDIUM 43CWE-269Published 2024-10-10 · Updated 2026-04-08

Key facts

Attack vector: Network
Privileges required: None
User interaction: None
Attack complexity: Low
Impact type: Privilege escalation
Confidentiality · integrity · availability: High · High · High
Fix status: No fix listed

Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CNA. Fix status from CNA. Impact type from CWE-269.

Summary

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.

Why it matters now

Exploitation None reported CISA SSVC · not in CISA KEV

EPSS 0.00522 44th percentileScored 2026-11-07

Fix No fix listed No fixed version in the sources yet

SSVC decision points

CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3

Exploitation: None
Automatable: No
Technical impact: Total

The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.

Affected products

Vendor	Product	Affected versions	Fixed in	Status	Source
userplus	User registration & user profile – UserPlus	up to 2.0	—	No fix listed	CNA

User registration & user profile – UserPlus Vendoruserplus Affected up to 2.0 Fixed in — No fix listed CNA

CPE configurations NVD · 1

CPE	Versions	Role	Vendor
cpe:2.3:a:wpuserplus:userplus::::::wordpress::*	up to 2.0	Vulnerable	userplus

cpe:2.3:a:wpuserplus:userplus:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:* Versions up to 2.0 Vulnerable ·userplus

Remediation

No fixed version listed by the sources yet.

Timeline

2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2024-9518
2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-75jv-g4w5-cpjq

References

Advisory 1

https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/2489e649-27f7-4ca0-8655-0957016fa89a?source=cve

Other 1

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/userplus/trunk/functions/user-functions.php?rev=1604604#L47

TI-2024-08832 UserPlus <= 2.0 - Authenticated (Editor+) Registration Form Update to Privilege Escalation CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.2
TI-2023-00782 UserPlus <= 2.0 - Stored XSS via CSRF CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.4
TI-2024-08833 UserPlus <= 2.0 - Missing Authorization via Multiple Functions CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 6.3

Sources

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