CVE-2024-10261 Code injection in Paid Membership Subscriptions – Effortless Memberships, Recurring Payments & Content Restriction

High 7.3 Published Updated

Unauthenticated attackers can execute arbitrary shortcodes in the Paid Membership Subscriptions WordPress plugin due to improper validation.

Exploited in the wild
Not known
Login needed
Not needed
Attackable
Over the internet
Victim action needed
Not needed
Fix
None listed

What is CVE-2024-10261?

CVE-2024-10261 is a high-severity code injection vulnerability in cozmoslabs Paid Membership Subscriptions – Effortless Memberships, Recurring Payments & Content Restriction, published on 9 Nov 2024. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

The The Paid Membership Subscriptions – Effortless Memberships, Recurring Payments & Content Restriction plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to arbitrary shortcode execution in all versions up to, and including, 2.13.0. This is due to the software allowing users to execute an action that does not properly validate a value before running do_shortcode. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to execute arbitrary shortcodes.

Weakness: CWE-94

Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-10261?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Cozmoslabs Membership \& Content Restriction - Paid Member Subscriptions.

How do I fix CVE-2024-10261?

No fix has been published for CVE-2024-10261 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade, and never evaluate templates, expressions or code built from user input. More about Code injection.

Is CVE-2024-10261 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-10261 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Sources

Also known as GHSA-hmgq-qq8h-7rfm.

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