CVE-2024-9520
UserPlus <= 2.0 - Missing Authorization via Multiple Functions
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- Wordfence
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.
Timeline
ID reserved
By Wordfence
- 6 days later
· 6 days later
Published
- 18 months later
· 18 months later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| WordfenceCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | Medium6.3 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L |
| NVDNVD · Analyzed | 3.1 | Medium5.4 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.34% · top 73% of all CVEs (7 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.3.
Weakness
Affected products
userplus · User registration & user profile – UserPlus
- affected ≤ 2.0
References (4)
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/e64e41a1-ea8e-41b4-911c-672caf0d2df1?source=cve (opens in a new tab)
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/userplus/trunk/admin/admin-ajax.php?rev=1627771#L216 (opens in a new tab)
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/userplus/trunk/admin/admin-ajax.php?rev=1627771#L225 (opens in a new tab)
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/userplus/trunk/admin/admin-ajax.php?rev=1627771#L186 (opens in a new tab)
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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