WCFM Membership <= 2.10.0 - Unauthenticated Privilege Escalation

9.8
Missing Authorization
CVE CVE-2022-4939
CVSS 9.8 (Critical)
Publicly Published April 5, 2023
Last Updated January 22, 2024
Researcher Chloe Chamberland - Wordfence

Description

THe WCFM Membership plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation in versions up to, and including 2.10.0, due to a missing capability check on the wp_ajax_nopriv_wcfm_ajax_controller AJAX action that controls membership settings. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to modify the membership registration form in a way that allows them to set the role for registration to that of any user including administrators. Once configured, the attacker can then register as an administrator.

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1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug wc-multivendor-membership (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Remediation Update to version 2.10.1, or a newer patched version
Affected Version
  • <= 2.10.0
Patched Version
  • 2.10.1

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