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. Exploitation requires an authenticated WordPress account. The resulting impact depends on how the affected component exposes the vulnerable operation.
- 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 creating_pricing_table_page function in all versions up to, and including, 2.11.1. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber access or higher, to create pricing tables.
CVE / CNA vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
Primary and upstream sources
- NVD record for CVE-2024-1390
- WordPress upstream reference plugins.trac.wordpress.org
- WordPress upstream reference plugins.trac.wordpress.org
- Wordfence advisory wordfence.com
- WordPress upstream reference plugins.trac.wordpress.org
- WordPress upstream reference plugins.trac.wordpress.org
- Wordfence advisory wordfence.com