CVE-2020-36754 Paid Memberships Pro <= 2.4.2 - Cross-Site Request Forgery Bypass

What is CVE-2020-36754?

CVE-2020-36754 is a medium-severity vulnerability in strangerstudios Paid Memberships Pro – Content Restriction, User Registration, & Paid Subscriptions, published on 20 Oct 2023. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official description

The Paid Memberships Pro plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in versions up to, and including, 2.4.2. This is due to missing or incorrect nonce validation on the pmpro_page_save() function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to save pages via a forged request granted they can trick a site administrator into performing an action such as clicking on a link.

Weakness: CWE-352

Which versions are affected by CVE-2020-36754?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Strangerstudios Paid Memberships Pro.

How do I fix CVE-2020-36754?

No fix has been published for CVE-2020-36754 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Is CVE-2020-36754 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2020-36754 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in strangerstudios Paid Memberships Pro – Content Restriction, User Registration, & Paid Subscriptions

• CVE-2023-23488 SQL injection in Paid Memberships Pro WordPress Plugin Critical 9.8
• CVE-2021-25114 Paid Memberships Pro < 2.6.7 - Unauthenticated Blind SQL Injection Critical 9.8
• CVE-2023-0631 Paid Memberships Pro < 2.9.12 - Subscriber+ SQL Injection High 8.8
• CVE-2021-20678 SQL injection in Paid Memberships Pro High 8.8
• CVE-2024-37486 WordPress Paid Memberships Pro plugin <= 3.0.5 - Authenticated SQL Injection vulnerability High 7.6

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as GHSA-gp3m-x389-m39x.