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.
- Component
- Paid Membership Subscriptions – Effortless Memberships, Recurring Payments & Content Restriction
- Affected
- See vendor advisory
- Safe version
- See mitigation notes
- Published
- Nov 05, 2025
- Weakness
- CWE-862 — Missing Authorization
This CVE was published Nov 05, 2025 and is one of 1 known issue 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 and validation check on the PMS_AJAX_Checkout_Handler::process_payment() function in all versions up to, and including, 2.16.4. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to trigger stored auto-renew charges for arbitrary members.
CVE / CNA vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N