# CVE-2024-9518: UserPlus <= 2.0 - Unauthenticated Privilege Escalation

> Unauthenticated attackers can escalate privileges by specifying their user role during registration in the UserPlus WordPress plugin.

- **Severity:** Critical 9.8 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Not needed
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 10 Oct 2024
- **Updated:** 8 Apr 2026
- **Also known as:** GHSA-75jv-g4w5-cpjq

## What is CVE-2024-9518?

CVE-2024-9518 is a critical vulnerability in User registration & user profile – UserPlus, published on 10 Oct 2024. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

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.

Weakness: CWE-269 (Improper Privilege Management)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-9518?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Wpuserplus Userplus.

## How do I fix CVE-2024-9518?

No fix has been published for CVE-2024-9518 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2024-9518 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-9518 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in User registration & user profile – UserPlus

- [CVE-2023-0824](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-0824/): UserPlus <= 2.0 - Stored XSS via CSRF (high 7.4)
- [CVE-2024-9519](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-9519/): UserPlus <= 2.0 - Authenticated (Editor+) Registration Form Update to Privilege Escalation (high 7.2)
- [CVE-2024-9520](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-9520/): UserPlus <= 2.0 - Missing Authorization via Multiple Functions (medium 6.3)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2024-9518 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2024-9518 is a critical vulnerability in User registration & user profile – UserPlus, published on 10 Oct 2024. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-9518 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: User registration & user profile – UserPlus. 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-2024-9518/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-9518/index.md)
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## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-9518
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-9518
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2024-9518

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-9518/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.