Paid Memberships Pro <= 2.12.8 - Authenticated (Contributor+) User Meta Disclosure

Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor
CVE Not available
CVSS Medium (4.3)
Publicly Published February 8, 2024
Last Updated January 31, 2025
Researcher Scott Kingsley Clark
Description

The Paid Memberships Pro – Content Restriction, User Registration, & Paid Subscriptions plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Sensitive Information Exposure in all versions up to, and including, 2.12.8 via the pmpro_member shortcode. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with contributor-level access and above, to extract potentially sensitive data about users by utilizing the shortcode to display user meta field.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug paid-memberships-pro (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 2.12.8
Patched Version
  • 2.12.9
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