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GHSA-V46R-X4F9-R3P5

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2024-01-11 09:30 – Updated: 2025-06-03 15:31

Details

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

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

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-01-11 08:32 – Updated: 2025-06-03 14:09

Summary

Severity ?

5.3 (Medium)


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

CWE

CWE-862 Missing Authorization

Assigner

Wordfence

References

URL

Tags

	https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabil…
	https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/paid-m…
	https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/paid-m…
	https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3011…

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	strangerstudios	Paid Memberships Pro – Content Restriction, User Registration, & Paid Subscriptions	Affected: * , ≤ 2.12.5 (semver)

Credits

Craig Smith

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Sightings

Author	Source	Type	Date

Nomenclature

Seen: The vulnerability was mentioned, discussed, or observed by the user.
Confirmed: The vulnerability has been validated from an analyst's perspective.
Published Proof of Concept: A public proof of concept is available for this vulnerability.
Exploited: The vulnerability was observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.

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GHSA-V46R-X4F9-R3P5

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

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