Opal Membership: Sensitive information exposure
Opal Membership is affected by sensitive information exposure. Exploitation requires at least subscriber-level access. Successful exploitation can disclose data that should not be available to the caller.
- Component
- Opal Membership
- Plugin slug
opal-membership- Affected
- See vendor advisory
- Safe version
- See mitigation notes
- Published
- Aug 12, 2024
- Weakness
- CWE-862 — Missing Authorization
This CVE was published Aug 12, 2024 and is one of 2 known issues for this plugin.
Update, patch or deactivate.
Update Opal Membership 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 Opal Membership plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Sensitive Information Exposure in all versions up to, and including, 1.2.4 via the private notes functionality on payments which utilizes WordPress comments. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, to view private notes via recent comments that should be restricted to just administrators.
CVE / CNA vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N