Simple Membership <= 4.1.2 - Membership Privilege Escalation

Improper Privilege Management
CVE CVE-2022-2317
CVSS Critical (9.8)
Publicly Published July 6, 2022
Last Updated January 22, 2024
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 level_identifier supplied which makes it possible for unauthenticated users to supplied arbitrary membership levels and be granted to permissions.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug simple-membership (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 4.1.2
Patched Version
  • 4.1.3
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