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WCFM Membership – WooCommerce Memberships for Multivendor Marketplace, CVE-2022-4939

CVE, Research URL

CVE-2022-4939

Published on
Apr 06, 2023
Research Description
THe WCFM Membership plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation in versions up to, and including 2.10.0, due to a missing capability check on the wp_ajax_nopriv_wcfm_ajax_controller AJAX action that controls membership settings. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to modify the membership registration form in a way that allows them to set the role for registration to that of any user including administrators. Once configured, the attacker can then register as an administrator.
Affected versions
max 2.10.1.
Status
vulnerable