WordPress security changelog
MEDIUM CVE-2024-1389 Modified

Paid Membership Subscriptions – Effortless Memberships, Recurring Payments & Content Restriction: A security weakness

Paid Membership Subscriptions – Effortless Memberships, Recurring Payments & Content Restriction is affected by a security weakness. The vulnerable path is reachable without authentication. The resulting impact depends on how the affected component exposes the vulnerable operation.

CVE / CNA score 5.3 CVSS 3.1 · security@wordfence.com
NVD score Pending NVD has not published its own CVSS assessment.
Component
Paid Membership Subscriptions – Effortless Memberships, Recurring Payments & Content Restriction
Plugin slug
paid-member-subscriptions
Affected
See vendor advisory
Safe version
See mitigation notes
Published
Feb 29, 2024
Weakness
CWE-862 — Missing Authorization

This CVE was published Feb 29, 2024 and is one of 13 known issues for this plugin.

Update, patch or deactivate.

Update Paid Membership Subscriptions – Effortless Memberships, Recurring Payments & Content Restriction 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 Paid Membership Subscriptions – Effortless Memberships, Recurring Payments & Content Restriction plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the pms_stripe_connect_handle_authorization_return function in all versions up to, and including, 2.11.1. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to change the Stripe payment keys.

CVE / CNA vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

Primary and upstream sources