WP Membership <= 1.2.3 - Privilege Escalation

Improper Authentication

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CVE	CVE-2015-4038
CVSS	High (8.8)
Publicly Published	May 21, 2015
Last Updated	January 22, 2024
Researcher	Panagiotis Vagenas

Description

The WP Membership plugin 1.2.3 for WordPress allows remote authenticated users to gain administrator privileges via an iv_membership_update_user_settings action to wp-admin/admin-ajax.php.

References

www.wordfence.com

1 affected software package

Software Type	Plugin
Software Slug	wp-membership (view on wordpress.org)
Patched?	No
Affected Version	<= 1.2.3
Patched Version

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