CVE-2022-2273 - Simple Membership < 4.1.3 - Membership Privilege Escalation

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HIGH

Simple Membership < 4.1.3 - Membership Privilege Escalation

Published Aug 1, 2022

8.8

HIGH

CVSS 3.1

EPSS 1.20%

Description

The Simple Membership WordPress plugin before 4.1.3 does not properly validate the membership_level parameter when editing a profile, allowing members to escalate to a higher membership level by using a crafted POST request.

Affected products

Vendor n/a Product Simple Membership Default
n/a
- Version
  4.1.3
  Status
  affected
  Constraints
  <4.1.3

Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor

Product

Default status

Versions

n/a

Simple Membership

n/a

Version	Status	Constraints
4.1.3	affected	<4.1.3

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Weaknesses (1)

CWE-269

Improper Privilege Management

References (1)

https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/724729d9-1c4a-485c-9c90-a27664c47c84
x_refsource_MISCExploitThird Party Advisory

Link	Providers	Tags
https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/724729d9-1c4a-485c-9c90-a27664c47c84		x_refsource_MISCExploitThird Party Advisory

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources

CVE.org / MITRE

Status PUBLISHED

Assigner WPScan

Published Aug 1, 2022

Updated Aug 3, 2024

Reserved Jun 30, 2022

Link CVE-2022-2273

CISA Vulnrichment

Updated n/a

NVD

Status Modified

Modified Jun 17, 2026

Link CVE-2022-2273

Red Hat

Severity n/a

Public date n/a

Links CVE-2022-2273