The Simple Membership plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to membership related privilege escalation in versions up to, and including, 4.1.2. This is due to insufficient validation on the membership membership_level supplied which makes it possible for authenticated users to supplied arbitrary membership levels and be granted to permissions.
CVE-2022-2273 is a high severity with CVSS 8.8 Privilege Escalation issue affecting the Plugin Simple Membership. It affects Versions up to 4.1.2 and is fixed in 4.1.3.
CVE-2022-2273 is tracked for the Plugin Simple Membership as high severity with CVSS 8.8. The affected range is Versions up to 4.1.2. Update Simple Membership to 4.1.3 or newer where that version is compatible with the site.
| Software Type | Plugin |
|---|---|
| Software Slug |
simple-membership
View on wordpress.org
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| CVE | CVE-2022-2273 |
| Patched Versions |
4.1.3
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| Affected Versions |
Versions up to 4.1.2
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These internal links group the same WordPress plugin by CVE, issue type, severity, and patch status so operators and search engines can connect the full vulnerability cluster.
Simple Membership <= 4.1.2 - Membership Privilege Escalation
Simple Membership <= 4.3.4 - Account Takeover via Password Reset
Simple Membership <= 4.0.8 - Cross-Site Request Forgery to Arbitrary Member Deletion
Simple Membership <= 3.8.4 - Cross-Site Request Forgery
Simple Membership <= 3.3.2 - Multiple Cross-Site Request Forgery
Simple Membership <= 4.3.4 - Privilege escalation via Registration
Simple Membership <= 4.3.5 - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting
Simple Membership <= 4.7.0 - Unauthenticated Improper Handling of Missing Values
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