Simple Membership <= 4.3.4 - Privilege escalation via Registration

2023-09-25 00:00
Rafie Muhammad

Strategic Overview

Status
Patched in 4.3.5
Affected PluginSimple Membership
Affected Version<= 4.3.4
CVSS7.3High
CVECVE-2023-41957
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Vulnerability Overview

The Simple Membership plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation due to missing input validation on the create_swpm_user function in versions up to, and including, 4.3.4. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to register users with arbitrary membership levels. Since membership levels can be granted a higher user role than subscriber, this can lead to privilege escalation

Technical Analysis

REMEDIATION: Update to version 4.3.5, 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.

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