Paid Membership Subscriptions – Effortless Memberships, Recurring Payments & Content Restriction <= 2.13.7 - Authentication Bypass via pms_payment_id

Improper Authentication
CVE CVE-2024-12919
CVSS Critical (9.8)
Publicly Published January 13, 2025
Last Updated January 14, 2025
Researcher wesley (wcraft)
Description

The Paid Membership Subscriptions – Effortless Memberships, Recurring Payments & Content Restriction plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Authentication Bypass in all versions up to, and including, 2.13.7. This is due to the pms_pb_payment_redirect_link function using the user-controlled value supplied via the 'pms_payment_id' parameter to authenticate users without any further identity validation. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers with knowledge of a valid payment ID to log in as any user who has made a purchase on the targeted site.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug paid-member-subscriptions (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 2.13.7
Patched Version
  • 2.13.8
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