CRM Memberships <= 2.6 - Missing Authorization to Privilege Escalation via Unauthenticated Password Reset in 'ntzcrm_changepassword' AJAX Endpoint
Strategic Overview
- Status
- Patched in 2.7
- Affected Plugin
- CRM Memberships
- Affected Version
<= 2.6- CVSS
- 9.8Critical
- Weakness type
- CWE-862 · Missing Authorization
- CVE
CVE-2025-13313
At a glance
CVE-2025-13313 is a critical-severity Missing Authorization vulnerability in the CRM Memberships WordPress plugin, affecting versions <= 2.6. It carries a CVSS score of 9.8 (reachable over the network; low attack complexity; high confidentiality, integrity, availability impact). Exploitation requires no authentication. The issue is fixed in version 2.7; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed December 2025, reported by Athiwat Tiprasaharn (Jitlada).
Vulnerability Overview
The CRM Memberships plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation via password reset in all versions up to, and including, 2.6. This is due to missing authorization and authentication checks on the `ntzcrm_changepassword` AJAX action. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to reset arbitrary user passwords and gain unauthorized access to user accounts via the `ntzcrm_changepassword` endpoint, granted they can obtain or enumerate a target user's email address. The plugin also exposes the `ntzcrm_get_users` endpoint without authentication, allowing attackers to enumerate subscriber email addresses, facilitating the exploitation of the password reset vulnerability.
Technical Analysis
The vector marks this flaw as remotely reachable over the network, with low attack complexity — no special timing or configuration is needed, and no privileges on the target site, and no interaction from a victim user. A successful exploit has high impact on confidentiality, integrity, availability — full site compromise territory.
CWE-862: Missing Authorization
Reaching this weakness in CRM Memberships <= 2.6 takes no account at all. A missing authorization check means a function is reachable by anyone who can reach the endpoint, because the code never asks whether the caller is allowed to perform the action.
Any user who can reach the endpoint gets to run an action reserved for higher-privileged roles, from reading protected data to changing settings or content. For CRM Memberships the fix is 2.7: builds <= 2.6 are affected, anything from 2.7 onward is not.
Remediation
Update to version 2.7, or a newer patched version
How does WordSec protect against this?
This one needs no account at all, which puts it outside what login hardening can reach; WordSec's login security narrows the account-level paths around it, and the firewall is what inspects the request itself. None of that substitutes for the fix: CRM Memberships 2.7 closes this, and updating the plugin is the step that ends it.
- Login Security
- Alerts
External References
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