CVE-2024-10528: Ultimate Member <= 2.8.9 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Arbitrary User Profile Picture Update
Noroxi assessment
Priority: Monitor (action score 17/100)
- The sources we track (CISA KEV, Exploit-DB, Metasploit, Nuclei, GitHub) show no public exploit code or exploitation in the wild.
- Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days: 0.57% (FIRST EPSS).
- Anyone who can reach it over the internet can trigger it. A low-privileged account is enough. No user action is required. No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.
- According to the record, no fixed version is available yet.
Low priority for now. Update when a fix is released; follow the vendor's advisory.
Generated automatically from the record's data: CVSS (NVD and CNA), CISA KEV and SSVC, FIRST EPSS, exploit sources, fixed versions. How we calculate it
Primary sources: NVD · CVE.org · FIRST EPSS
The Ultimate Member – User Profile, Registration, Login, Member Directory, Content Restriction & Membership Plugin plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized profile picture updates due to a missing capability check on the wp_ajax_um_resize_image() and ajax_resize_image() functions in all versions up to, and including, 2.8.9. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, to update the profile pictures of other users.
- Published
- Nov 21, 2024
- Updated
- Jun 17, 2026
- EPSS
- 0.5% · 48th percentile
- CWE
- CWE-862
Report tools
Action score
17
Low priority for now.
- CVSS
- 17 / 40 · 4.3 / 10
- CISA KEV
- 0 / 30 · Not listed
- EPSS
- 0 / 30 · 0.5%
CISA SSVC decision
- Exploitation
- none
- Automatable
- no
- Technical impact
- partial
Vulnrichment: CISA's decision-tree inputs.
CNA vs NVD score
- NVD
- —
- CNA · Wordfence
- 4.3
- NVD has not scored this yet; the score shown is the CNA’s.
The score given by the assigning authority versus NVD’s independent score. A gap means the severity is contested.
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| Vendor | Product | CPE |
|---|---|---|
| ultimatemember | ultimate member | cpe:2.3:a:ultimatemember:ultimate_member |
Versions reported by the vendor
Affected version ranges reported by the assigning authority (Wordfence). Independent of NVD's CPE analysis and usually ahead of it.
ultimatemember Ultimate Member – User Profile, Registration, Login, Member Directory, Content Restriction & Membership Plugin
- up to and including 2.8.9affected · semver
Affected versions
NVD version ranges (for catalog products). Add the product to your stack with a version and matching uses these.
- ultimatemember ultimate memberbefore 2.9.0
Same product
ultimatemember: all recordsOther highest-scoring records for the same primary product.
- CVE-2024-1071The Ultimate Member – User Profile, Registration, Login, Member Directory, Content Restriction & Membership Plugin plugin for WordPress is…66This week
- CVE-2023-3460Ultimate Member < 2.6.7 - Unauthenticated Privilege Escalation61This week
- CVE-2020-36155An issue was discovered in the Ultimate Member plugin before 2.1.12 for WordPress, aka Unauthenticated Privilege Escalation via User Meta.42Plan
Published before and after this one in the same product
- ← EarlierCVE-2024-8519Oct 4, 2024 · Ultimate Member <= 2.8.6 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting21Monitor
- ← EarlierCVE-2024-8520Oct 4, 2024 · Ultimate Member <= 2.8.6 - Cross-Site Request Forgery to Membership Status Change17Monitor
- Later →CVE-2025-0308Jan 18, 2025 · Ultimate Member <= 2.9.1 - Unauthenticated SQL Injection30Monitor
Remediation
Which version to upgrade to
Fix versions compiled from the vendor, package registries and Microsoft. Verify the vendor's note before upgrading.
No fix version is recorded for this entry. Check the references for vendor advisories.
Exploit status
No known public exploit
No public exploit has been observed yet. That doesn't mean you're safe, only that the bar is a little higher.
Research context
For pentesters and researchers: attack profile, score disagreement, timeline, patch commits, credits, variant and chain candidates, bug bounty scope. All derived from existing data; no exploit code.
Timeline
From publication to today: proof of concept, Metasploit module, CISA KEV and fix record. Dates are as reported by the sources.
No dated events beyond publication.
Credits
All researchersFinders, reporters and analysts named in the CNA record. Click a name for that researcher’s other records.
- Kevin Wydlerfinder
Not on record for this CVE: EPSS history · patch commit or PR link · variant or chain candidate · public bounty program.
Technical details
Attack conditions
- Anyone who can reach it over the internet can trigger it.
- A low-privileged account is enough.
- No user action is required.
- No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.
If successful
- Confidentiality
- none
- Integrity
- low · data or configuration can be modified
- Availability
- none
- Attack vector
- Network
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Privileges required
- Low
- User interaction
- None
- Scope
- Unchanged
- Confidentiality impact
- None
- Integrity impact
- Low
- Availability impact
- None
Weakness class (CWE)
CWE-862 · Missing AuthorizationCVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
nvd-secondary
Attack context
MITRE CAPEC attack patterns and ATT&CK techniques for this weakness class (CWE). A starting point for detection rules and threat hunting.
Change log (0)
No changes recorded on tracked fields yet. Score, KEV, exploit maturity and fix status changes appear here.
References
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- github.com/ultimatemember/ultimatemember/blob/ab05bc570a8ba6449cd470791be1c0670eb9c203/includes/core/class-files.php#L371
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=3186722%40ultimate-member&new=3186722%40ultimate-member&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=
- www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/0a9793b6-2186-46ef-b204-d8f8f154ebf3?source=cve
Vendor advisories and official records. Exploit/PoC links are deliberately left out.