# CVE-2024-10528: Ultimate Member <= 2.8.9 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Arbitrary User Profile Picture Update

> Authenticated subscribers can modify other users' profile pictures due to missing capability checks in the Ultimate Member WordPress plugin.

- **Severity:** Medium 4.3 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Any signed-in user
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 21 Nov 2024
- **Updated:** 8 Apr 2026

## What is CVE-2024-10528?

CVE-2024-10528 is a medium-severity missing authorization vulnerability in ultimatemember Ultimate Member – User Profile, Registration, Login, Member Directory, Content Restriction & Membership Plugin, published on 21 Nov 2024. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

The Ultimate Member – User Profile, Registration, Login, Member Directory, Content Restriction & Membership Plugin plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized profile picture updates due to a missing capability check on the wp_ajax_um_resize_image() and ajax_resize_image() functions in all versions up to, and including, 2.8.9. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, to update the profile pictures of other users.

Weakness: CWE-862 (Missing Authorization)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-10528?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Ultimatemember Ultimate Member.

## How do I fix CVE-2024-10528?

No fix has been published for CVE-2024-10528 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2024-10528 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-10528 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in ultimatemember Ultimate Member – User Profile, Registration, Login, Member Directory, Content Restriction & Membership Plugin

- [CVE-2020-36155](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2020-36155/): Privilege escalation in n/a (critical 10.0)
- [CVE-2020-36157](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2020-36157/): Privilege escalation in n/a (critical 10.0)
- [CVE-2020-36156](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2020-36156/): Privilege escalation in n/a (critical 9.9)
- [CVE-2024-1071](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-1071/): SQL injection in Ultimate Member – User Profile, Registration, Login, Member Directory, Content Restriction & Membership Plugin (critical 9.8)
- [CVE-2023-3460](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-3460/): Ultimate Member < 2.6.7 - Unauthenticated Privilege Escalation (critical 9.8)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2024-10528 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2024-10528 is a medium-severity missing authorization vulnerability in ultimatemember Ultimate Member – User Profile, Registration, Login, Member Directory, Content Restriction & Membership Plugin, published on 21 Nov 2024. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-10528 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: ultimatemember Ultimate Member – User Profile, Registration, Login, Member Directory, Content Restriction & Membership Plugin. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-10528/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-10528/index.md)
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## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-10528
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-10528
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2024-10528

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-10528/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.