vulnerability
WordPress Plugin: simple-membership: CVE-2022-2317: Improper Privilege Management
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10 | (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C) | Jul 6, 2022 | May 15, 2025 | Apr 30, 2026 |
Severity
10
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
Jul 6, 2022
Added
May 15, 2025
Modified
Apr 30, 2026
Description
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 level_identifier supplied which makes it possible for unauthenticated users to supplied arbitrary membership levels and be granted to permissions.
Solution
simple-membership-plugin-cve-2022-2317
References
Rapid7 Labs
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