Medium severity · published Mar 13, 2024
CVE-2024-1985
Simple Membership <= 4.4.2 - Unauthenticated Stored Self-Based Cross-Site Scripting
6.1
CVSS
0.9%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
The Simple Membership plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'Display Name' parameter in all versions up to, and including, 4.4.2 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page. This vulnerability requires social engineering to successfully exploit, and the impact would be very limited due to the attacker requiring a user to login as the user with the injected payload for execution.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
Required
Confidentiality
Low
Integrity
Low
Availability
None
Scope
Changed
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.9% · higher than 59% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
SM
Simple Membership · wpinsider-1
through 4.4.2 · source: vendor, NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-1985
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-1985
Product
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/simple-membership/trunk/views/edit-v2.php#L103
Product
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/simple-membership/trunk/views/edit-v2.php#L112
Product
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/simple-membership/trunk/views/edit-v2.php#L121
Product
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/simple-membership/trunk/views/edit-v2.php#L130
Product
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/simple-membership/trunk/views/edit-v2.php#L139
Product
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/simple-membership/trunk/views/edit-v2.php#L157
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