ARMember <= 4.0.10 - Authenticated(Subscriber+) Privilege Escalation

2023-12-26 00:00

Revan Arifio

Strategic Overview

Status

Patched in 4.0.11

Affected PluginARMember – Membership Plugin, Content Restriction, Member Levels, User Profile & User signup

Affected Version<= 4.0.10

CVSS8.8High

CVECVE-2023-51356

View all ARMember – Membership Plugin, Content Restriction, Member Levels, User Profile & User signup vulnerabilities

Vulnerability Overview

The ARMember – Membership Plugin, Content Restriction, Member Levels, User Profile & User signup plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation due to insufficient input validation in all versions up to, and including, 4.0.10. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber access and above, to escalate their privileges.

Technical Analysis

REMEDIATION: Update to version 4.0.11, or a newer patched version --- IDENTIFIER: CWE-20 (Improper Input Validation) The product receives input or data, but it does not validate or incorrectly validates that the input has the properties that are required to process the data safely and correctly.

External References

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-51356 https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/c681d1ac-a5d0-43f2-a1e4-0684cd56a3b8

CVSS Vector

8.8

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

Base

Attack VectorNetwork
Attack ComplexityLow
Privileges RequiredLow
User InteractionNone
ScopeUnchanged
ConfidentialityHigh
IntegrityHigh
AvailabilityHigh

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