# CVE-2024-9519: UserPlus <= 2.0 - Authenticated (Editor+) Registration Form Update to Privilege Escalation

> Authenticated editors can escalate privileges to administrator by modifying the registration form role due to improper capability checks.

- **Severity:** High 7.2 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** An administrator
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 10 Oct 2024
- **Updated:** 8 Apr 2026
- **Also known as:** GHSA-gvrq-2779-x2hw

## What is CVE-2024-9519?

CVE-2024-9519 is a high-severity vulnerability in User registration & user profile – UserPlus, published on 10 Oct 2024. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

The UserPlus plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to an improper capability check on the 'save_metabox_form' function in versions up to, and including, 2.0. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with editor-level permissions or above, to update the registration form role to administrator, which leads to privilege escalation.

Weakness: CWE-266 (Incorrect Privilege Assignment)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-9519?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Wpuserplus Userplus.

## How do I fix CVE-2024-9519?

No fix has been published for CVE-2024-9519 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2024-9519 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-9519 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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

- [CVE-2024-9518](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-9518/): UserPlus <= 2.0 - Unauthenticated Privilege Escalation (critical 9.8)
- [CVE-2023-0824](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-0824/): UserPlus <= 2.0 - Stored XSS via CSRF (high 7.4)
- [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-2024-9519 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2024-9519 is a high-severity vulnerability in User registration & user profile – UserPlus, published on 10 Oct 2024. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-9519 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-2024-9519/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-9519/index.md)
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## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-9519
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-9519
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2024-9519

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-9519/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.