# CVE-2024-8520: Ultimate Member \<= 2.8.6 - Cross-Site Request Forgery to Membership Status Change

- Severity: CVSS 5.3 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=yes, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2024-10-04 · Updated: 2026-04-08

## Affected

- ultimatemember Ultimate Member – User Profile, Registration, Login, Member Directory, Content Restriction & Membership Plugin: through 2.8.6

## Description

The Ultimate Member – User Profile, Registration, Login, Member Directory, Content Restriction & Membership Plugin plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in all versions up to, and including, 2.8.6. This is due to missing or incorrect nonce validation on the admin_init or user_action_hook function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to modify a users membership status via a forged request granted they can trick a site administrator into performing an action such as clicking on a link.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on ultimatemember Ultimate Member – User Profile, Registration, Login, Member Directory, Content Restriction & Membership Plugin, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
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## References

- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/7ffddc03-d4ae-460e-972a-98804d947d09?source=cve
- https://github.com/ultimatemember/ultimatemember/blob/7b8a7a7c039bde4539c07e049b19036192f1c133/includes/admin/class-admin.php#L1948C1-L1959C6
- https://github.com/ultimatemember/ultimatemember/blob/7b8a7a7c039bde4539c07e049b19036192f1c133/includes/admin/class-admin.php#L70C4-L70C84
- https://github.com/ultimatemember/ultimatemember/blob/7b8a7a7c039bde4539c07e049b19036192f1c133/includes/admin/class-admin.php#L1880
- https://github.com/ultimatemember/ultimatemember/blob/7b8a7a7c039bde4539c07e049b19036192f1c133/includes/admin/core/class-admin-users.php#L41C4-L41C90
- https://github.com/ultimatemember/ultimatemember/blob/7b8a7a7c039bde4539c07e049b19036192f1c133/includes/admin/core/class-admin-users.php#L146C1-L173C12
- https://github.com/ultimatemember/ultimatemember/blob/7b8a7a7c039bde4539c07e049b19036192f1c133/includes/admin/class-admin.php#L1945
- https://github.com/ultimatemember/ultimatemember/blob/7b8a7a7c039bde4539c07e049b19036192f1c133/includes/admin/core/class-admin-users.php#L175C1-L178C7
- https://github.com/ultimatemember/ultimatemember/pull/1549
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3160947/ultimate-member/trunk/includes/admin/class-admin.php

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