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title: "CVE-2023-3460: Ultimate Member < 2.6.7 - Unauthenticated… | CubePath"
description: "The Ultimate Member WordPress plugin before 2.6.7 does not prevent visitors from creating user accounts with arbitrary capabilities, effectively allowing…"
language: en
source: https://cubepath.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-3460
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# CVE-2023-3460: Ultimate Member < 2.6.7 - Unauthenticated… | CubePath

## 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](https://cubepath.com/security/cve/legal) for the CVE license. [View the record on cve.org](https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-3460)

## 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](https://cubepath.com/security/cve/legal) for the CWE license.

- [CWE-269](https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/269.html) Improper 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…](https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/694235c7-4469-4ffd-a722-9225b19e98d7) exploit vdb-entry technical-description
- [blog.wpscan.com/hacking-campaign-actively-exploiting-ultima…](https://blog.wpscan.com/hacking-campaign-actively-exploiting-ultimate-member-plugin/)

## Timeline

1. ID reserved Jun 29, 2023
2. Record published Jul 4, 2023
3. Record last updated Nov 25, 2024

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