WCFM Membership <= 2.10.0 - Unauthenticated Privilege Escalation

Missing Authorization
CVE CVE-2022-4939
CVSS Critical (9.8)
Publicly Published April 5, 2023
Last Updated January 22, 2024
Researcher Chloe Chamberland
Description

THe WCFM Membership plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation in versions up to, and including 2.10.0, due to a missing capability check on the wp_ajax_nopriv_wcfm_ajax_controller AJAX action that controls membership settings. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to modify the membership registration form in a way that allows them to set the role for registration to that of any user including administrators. Once configured, the attacker can then register as an administrator.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug wc-multivendor-membership (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 2.10.0
Patched Version
  • 2.10.1
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