CVE-2023-3460
Ultimate Member < 2.6.7 - Unauthenticated Privilege Escalation
Description
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.
Official description from the CVE record, published by WPScan. Copyright © 1999-2026 The MITRE Corporation. See /security/cve/legal for the CVE license. View the record on cve.org
Key data
EPSS
Exploit Prediction Scoring System by FIRST: an estimate of the probability that exploitation activity will be observed in the next 30 days.
- Score
- 0.72306 (72.3% probability)
- Percentile
- 99.4%
- Scores of
- Nov 10, 2026
- Model
- v2026.06.15
CISA assessment as of Nov 25, 2024
Stakeholder-Specific Vulnerability Categorization (SSVC) decision points added by CISA.
- Exploitation
- Public proof of concept recorded by CISA
- Automatable
- yes
- Technical impact
- total
Weakness (CWE)
CWE catalog version 5.0.
CWE names: Copyright © 2006-2026, The MITRE Corporation. See /security/cve/legal for the CWE license.
- CWE-269Improper Privilege Management
Affected products
Products listed in the CVE record, as the CNA published them.
Unknown Ultimate Member
- affected: before 2.6.7
References
Links listed in the CVE record. They lead to other sites, which CubePath does not control.
- wpscan.com/vulnerability/694235c7-4469-4ffd-a722-9225b19e98…exploitvdb-entrytechnical-description
- blog.wpscan.com/hacking-campaign-actively-exploiting-ultima…
Timeline
- ID reserved
- Record published
- Record last updated
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About CubePath
CubePath is a cloud provider with data centers in Europe and the United States. It offers VPS, bare metal servers and DDoS protection.
Data from the CVE Program (MITRE), CISA KEV and FIRST EPSS. CVSS is owned by FIRST and used by permission. Not affiliated with or endorsed by MITRE, CISA or FIRST. Data as of Nov 10, 2026, 19:50 UTC. Sources and licenses