cve/2020/CVE-2020-36156.md

### [CVE-2020-36156](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-36156)
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### Description

An issue was discovered in the Ultimate Member plugin before 2.1.12 for WordPress, aka Authenticated Privilege Escalation via Profile Update. Any user with wp-admin access to the profile.php page could supply the parameter um-role with a value set to any role (e.g., Administrator) during a profile update, and effectively escalate their privileges.

### POC

#### Reference
- https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/dd4c4ece-7206-4788-8747-f0c0f3ab0a53
- https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/dd4c4ece-7206-4788-8747-f0c0f3ab0a53

#### Github
No PoCs found on GitHub currently.