WP Membership <= 1.6.3 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Settings Update

Missing Authorization
CVE CVE-2025-54717
CVSS Medium (4.3)
Publicly Published August 14, 2025
Last Updated August 19, 2025
Researcher João Pedro Soares de Alcântara
Description

The WP Membership plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized access due to a missing capability check on a function in all versions up to, and including, 1.6.3. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to update the plugin's settings.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug wp-membership (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 1.6.3
Patched Version
  • 1.6.4
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