ARMember – Membership Plugin, Content Restriction, Member Levels, User Profile & User signup <= 3.4.7 -Authentication Bypass via Password Reset Weakness

2022-06-06 00:00

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Strategic Overview

Status

Patched in 3.4.8

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

Affected Version<= 3.4.7

CVSS9.8Critical

CVECVE-2022-1903

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Vulnerability Overview

The ARMember WordPress plugin before 3.4.8 is vulnerable to account takeover (even the administrator) due to missing nonce and authorization checks in an AJAX action available to unauthenticated users, allowing them to change the password of arbitrary users by knowing their username

Technical Analysis

REMEDIATION: Update to version 3.4.8, or a newer patched version --- IDENTIFIER: CWE-862 (Missing Authorization) The product does not perform an authorization check when an actor attempts to access a resource or perform an action.

External References

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-1903 https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/9831ebf6-a6a6-4495-8cda-969c7d7d3a6c

CVSS Vector

9.8

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

Base

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

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