CVE-2024-9520 UserPlus <= 2.0 - Missing Authorization via Multiple Functions

What is CVE-2024-9520?

CVE-2024-9520 is a medium-severity missing authorization vulnerability in User registration & user profile – UserPlus, published on 10 Oct 2024. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

The UserPlus plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized access, modification, and loss of data due to a missing capability check on multiple functions in all versions up to, and including, 2.0. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers with subscriber-level permissions or above, to add, modify, or delete user meta and plugin options.

Weakness: CWE-862

Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-9520?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Wpuserplus Userplus.

How do I fix CVE-2024-9520?

No fix has been published for CVE-2024-9520 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade, and check permissions on every request on the server, not only in the interface. More about Missing authorization.

Is CVE-2024-9520 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-9520 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in User registration & user profile – UserPlus

• CVE-2024-9518 UserPlus <= 2.0 - Unauthenticated Privilege Escalation Critical 9.8
• CVE-2023-0824 UserPlus <= 2.0 - Stored XSS via CSRF High 7.4
• CVE-2024-9519 UserPlus <= 2.0 - Authenticated (Editor+) Registration Form Update to Privilege Escalation High 7.2

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as GHSA-472x-3g5g-c8wv.