Membership & Content Restriction – Paid Member Subscriptions: SQL injection
Membership & Content Restriction – Paid Member Subscriptions is affected by SQL injection. Exposure depends on how the affected operation is made reachable by the site. A successful request can alter database queries and expose or modify WordPress data.
- Component
- Membership & Content Restriction – Paid Member Subscriptions
- Affected
- See vendor advisory
- Safe version
- See mitigation notes
- Published
- Sep 13, 2021
This CVE was published Sep 13, 2021 and is one of 4 known issues for this plugin.
Update, patch or deactivate.
Update Membership & Content Restriction – Paid Member Subscriptions to a release outside the affected range, or disable and remove it until a fixed version is available.
No confirmed safe version is listed. Consider a vendor-supported patch or temporarily restricting the affected functionality while you assess the risk.
Deactivate only when warranted by your risk profile, or when advised by your hosting provider in the limited circumstances where the vulnerability cannot otherwise be mitigated. If you’re unsure which action is appropriate, contact Fused or your hosting provider for guidance.
Technical description
The Membership & Content Restriction – Paid Member Subscriptions WordPress plugin before 2.4.2 did not sanitise, validate or escape its order and orderby parameters before using them in SQL statement, leading to Authenticated SQL Injections in the Members and Payments pages.
NVD vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H