Academist Membership <= 1.1.6 - Authentication Bypass via Account Takeover

Authentication Bypass Using an Alternate Path or Channel
CVE CVE-2025-1671
CVSS Critical (9.8)
Publicly Published February 28, 2025
Last Updated March 1, 2025
Researcher Tonn
Description

The Academist Membership plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Privilege Escalation in all versions up to, and including, 1.1.6. This is due to the academist_membership_check_facebook_user() function not properly verifying a user's identity prior to authenticating them. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to log in as any user, including site administrators.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug academist-membership (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 1.1.6
Patched Version
  • 1.2
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