PT-2021-16231 · WordPress · Membership & Content Restriction – Paid Member Subscriptions

Martin Vierula · Published 2021-09-13 · Updated 2022-12-21 · CVE-2021-24728

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

8.8

High

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Membership & Content Restriction – Paid Member Subscriptions WordPress plugin versions prior to 2.4.2

Description The issue concerns the Membership & Content Restriction – Paid Member Subscriptions WordPress plugin, where the order and orderby parameters are not properly sanitised, validated, or escaped before being used in SQL statements. This leads to authenticated SQL injections, specifically affecting the Members and Payments pages.

Recommendations For versions prior to 2.4.2, update to version 2.4.2 or later to resolve the issue. As a temporary workaround, consider restricting access to the Members and Payments pages until the update is applied.

Exploit

Fix

SQL injection

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-89

Related Identifiers

CVE-2021-24728

Affected Products

Membership & Content Restriction – Paid Member Subscriptions

References · 7

• 🔥 https://trustwave.com/en-us/resources/security-resources/security-advisories/?fid=29172 · Exploit
• 🔥 https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/2277d335-1c90-4fa8-b0bf-25873c039c38 · Exploit
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-24728 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2021-24728 · Vendor Advisory
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/2566399/paid-member-subscriptions · Note
• https://t.me/cvenotify/40290 · Telegram Post
• https://t.me/cvenotify/20801 · Telegram Post