# CVE-2023-3011: ARMember <= 4.0.5 - Cross-Site Request Forgery

> Unauthenticated attackers can trick administrators into performing unauthorized actions via CSRF, potentially leading to privilege escalation or data modification.

- **Severity:** Medium 6.5 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Not needed
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** A user has to click or open something
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 12 Jul 2023
- **Updated:** 8 Apr 2026
- **Also known as:** GHSA-985x-4r2c-5qx3

## What is CVE-2023-3011?

CVE-2023-3011 is a medium-severity vulnerability in reputeinfosystems ARMember – Membership Plugin, Content Restriction, Member Levels, User Profile & User signup, published on 12 Jul 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 ARMember plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in versions up to, and including, 4.0.5. This is due to missing or incorrect nonce validation on the arm_check_user_cap function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to perform multiple unauthorized actions via a forged request granted they can trick a site administrator into performing an action such as clicking on a link.

Weakness: CWE-352 (Cross-Site Request Forgery)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2023-3011?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Armemberplugin Armember.

## How do I fix CVE-2023-3011?

No fix has been published for CVE-2023-3011 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2023-3011 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2023-3011 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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

- [CVE-2022-42888](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-42888/): WordPress ARMember Plugin <= 5.5.1 is vulnerable to Privilege Escalation (critical 9.8)
- [CVE-2022-1903](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-1903/): ARMember < 3.4.8 - Unauthenticated Admin Account Takeover (high 8.1)
- [CVE-2022-47421](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-47421/): WordPress ARMember (free) and ARMember (premium) plugins - vulnerable to Auth. Stored Cross Site Scripting (XSS) (medium 5.9)
- [CVE-2023-3996](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-3996/): ARMember Lite - Membership Plugin <= 4.0.16 - Authenticated (Administrator+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting (medium 4.4)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2023-3011 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2023-3011 is a medium-severity vulnerability in reputeinfosystems ARMember – Membership Plugin, Content Restriction, Member Levels, User Profile & User signup, published on 12 Jul 2023. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2023-3011 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: reputeinfosystems ARMember – Membership Plugin, Content Restriction, Member Levels, User Profile & User signup. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-3011/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-3011/index.md)
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## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-3011
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-3011
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2023-3011

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-3011/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.