CVE-2023-6855 (GCVE-0-2023-6855)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-01-11 08:32 – Updated: 2025-06-03 14:09
VLAI?
Summary
The Paid Memberships Pro – Content Restriction, User Registration, & Paid Subscriptions plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of membership levels created by the plugin due to an incorrectly implemented capability check in the pmpro_rest_api_get_permissions_check function in all versions up to 2.12.5 (inclusive). This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to change membership levels including prices.
Severity ?
5.3 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
CWE
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
strangerstudios Paid Memberships Pro – Content Restriction, User Registration, & Paid Subscriptions Affected: * , ≤ 2.12.5 (semver)
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Credits
Craig Smith
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