CVE-2023-3460

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    CVE-2023-3460

    Published: 4 Jul 2023Last Modified: 12 Aug 2026

    Summary: Ultimate Member < 2.6.7 - Unauthenticated Privilege Escalation

    Details: The Ultimate Member WordPress plugin before 2.6.7 does not prevent visitors from creating user accounts with arbitrary capabilities, effectively allowing attackers to create administrator accounts at will. This is actively being exploited in the wild.

    References: https://wordpress.org/plugins, https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2023/3xxx/CVE-2023-3460.json, https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-3460, https://blog.wpscan.com/hacking-campaign-actively-exploiting-ultimate-member-plugin/, https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/694235c7-4469-4ffd-a722-9225b19e98d7

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name:

    Purl:

    Affected ranges

    Type: GIT

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -0b05d05518492c35f522c077b01dbfa52176adeb

    Affected versions

    2.6.6
    2.6.5
    2.6.4
    2.6.3
    2.6.2
    2.6.1
    2.6.0

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
    CVE-2023-3460 | CVE-DB