Paid Membership Plugin, Ecommerce, User Registration Form, Login Form, User Profile & Restrict Content – ProfilePress <= 4.15.4 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting
Strategic Overview
- Status
- Patched in 4.15.5
- Affected Plugin
- Paid Membership Plugin, Ecommerce, User Registration Form, Login Form, User Profile & Restrict Content – ProfilePress
- Affected Version
<= 4.15.4- CVSS
- 6.4Medium
- Weakness type
- CWE-20 · Improper Input Validation
- CVE
CVE-2024-2867
At a glance
CVE-2024-2867 is a medium-severity Improper Input Validation vulnerability in the Paid Membership Plugin, Ecommerce, User Registration Form, Login Form, User Profile & Restrict Content WordPress plugin, affecting versions <= 4.15.4. It carries a CVSS score of 6.4 (reachable over the network; low attack complexity). Exploitation requires an authenticated account at Contributor level or above. The issue is fixed in version 4.15.5; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed April 2024, reported by Ngô Thiên An (ancorn_).
Vulnerability Overview
The Paid Membership Plugin, Ecommerce, User Registration Form, Login Form, User Profile & Restrict Content – ProfilePress plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the ‘title’ parameter in all versions up to, and including, 4.15.4 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with contributor access or above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.
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 interaction from a victim user.
CWE-20: Improper Input Validation
Paid Membership Plugin, Ecommerce, User Registration Form, Login Form, User Profile & Restrict Content <= 4.15.4 carries this weakness at title, and reaching it takes an account at Contributor level or above. Improper input validation means the application accepts input without confirming it has the form, type or range the code downstream assumes.
The concrete impact depends on where the unvalidated value lands, which is why records in this class range from cosmetic bugs to full compromise. For Paid Membership Plugin, Ecommerce, User Registration Form, Login Form, User Profile & Restrict Content the fix is 4.15.5: builds <= 4.15.4 are affected, anything from 4.15.5 onward is not.
Remediation
Update to version 4.15.5, or a newer patched version
How does WordSec protect against this?
An attacker needs Contributor access first, so the firewall sees the attempt as traffic from a logged-in account: WordSec's web application firewall inspects request payloads before WordPress loads them. None of that substitutes for the fix: Paid Membership Plugin, Ecommerce, User Registration Form, Login Form, User Profile & Restrict Content 4.15.5 closes this, and updating the plugin is the step that ends it.
- Firewall
- Alerts
External References
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