CVE-2023-3996 ARMember Lite - Membership Plugin <= 4.0.16 - Authenticated (Administrator+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting
Administrators can inject scripts into ARMember Lite settings, affecting multi-site or restricted HTML installations, leading to potential account takeover.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- An administrator
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2023-3996?
CVE-2023-3996 is a medium-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in reputeinfosystems ARMember – Membership Plugin, Content Restriction, Member Levels, User Profile & User signup, published on 20 Oct 2023. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, with no action from the victim.
Official description
The ARMember Lite - Membership Plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via admin settings in versions up to, and including, 4.0.16 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with administrator-level permissions and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page. This only affects multi-site installations and installations where unfiltered_html has been disabled.
Weakness: CWE-79
Which versions are affected by CVE-2023-3996?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Armemberplugin Armember.
How do I fix CVE-2023-3996?
No fix has been published for CVE-2023-3996 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Escape output for the context it lands in and set a strict Content Security Policy. Upgrading the affected component is the real fix. More about Cross-site scripting.
Is CVE-2023-3996 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2023-3996 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 WordPress ARMember Plugin <= 5.5.1 is vulnerable to Privilege Escalation
- CVE-2022-1903 ARMember < 3.4.8 - Unauthenticated Admin Account Takeover
- CVE-2023-3011 ARMember <= 4.0.5 - Cross-Site Request Forgery
- CVE-2022-47421 WordPress ARMember (free) and ARMember (premium) plugins - vulnerable to Auth. Stored Cross Site Scripting (XSS)
Sources
Also known as GHSA-364j-ch9m-hp4h.