CVE-2022-1903 ARMember < 3.4.8 - Unauthenticated Admin Account Takeover

What is CVE-2022-1903?

CVE-2022-1903 is a high-severity missing authorization vulnerability in Unknown ARMember – Membership Plugin, Content Restriction, Member Levels, User Profile & User signup, published on 27 Jun 2022. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

The ARMember WordPress plugin before 3.4.8 is vulnerable to account takeover (even the administrator) due to missing nonce and authorization checks in an AJAX action available to unauthenticated users, allowing them to change the password of arbitrary users by knowing their username

Weakness: CWE-862

Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-1903?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Armemberplugin Armember.

How do I fix CVE-2022-1903?

No fix has been published for CVE-2022-1903 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade, and check permissions on every request on the server, not only in the interface. More about Missing authorization.

Is CVE-2022-1903 being exploited?

It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2022-1903 exists.

Public exploit code: 1 Nuclei template and 1 proofs of concept on GitHub.

Other vulnerabilities in Unknown ARMember – Membership Plugin, Content Restriction, Member Levels, User Profile & User signup

• CVE-2022-42888 WordPress ARMember Plugin <= 5.5.1 is vulnerable to Privilege Escalation Critical 9.8
• CVE-2023-3011 ARMember <= 4.0.5 - Cross-Site Request Forgery Medium 6.5
• CVE-2022-47421 WordPress ARMember (free) and ARMember (premium) plugins - vulnerable to Auth. Stored Cross Site Scripting (XSS) Medium 5.9
• CVE-2023-3996 ARMember Lite - Membership Plugin <= 4.0.16 - Authenticated (Administrator+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting Medium 4.4

Sources

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

Also known as GHSA-84p8-fx26-f9cw.