# 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.

- **Severity:** Medium 4.4 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** An administrator
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 20 Oct 2023
- **Updated:** 8 Apr 2026
- **Also known as:** GHSA-364j-ch9m-hp4h

## 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 (Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2023-3996?

It affects 1 product.


Products: 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.

## 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](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-2023-3011](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-3011/): ARMember <= 4.0.5 - Cross-Site Request Forgery (medium 6.5)
- [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)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2023-3996 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: 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.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2023-3996 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-2023-3996/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-3996/index.md)
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## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-3996
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-3996
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2023-3996

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-3996/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.