Simple Membership <= 4.1.2 - Membership Privilege Escalation

8.8
Improper Privilege Management
CVE CVE-2022-2273
CVSS 8.8 (High)
Publicly Published July 6, 2022
Last Updated January 19, 2023
Researcher Jet Infosystems

Description

The Simple Membership plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to membership related privilege escalation in versions up to, and including, 4.1.2. This is due to insufficient validation on the membership membership_level supplied which makes it possible for authenticated users to supplied arbitrary membership levels and be granted to permissions.

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Vulnerability Details for Simple Membership

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug simple-membership (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Remediation Update to version 4.1.3, or a newer patched version
Affected Version
  • <= 4.1.2
Patched Version
  • 4.1.3

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