# CVE-2024-11088: Simple Membership <= 4.5.5 - Exposure of Private Personal Information to an Unauthorized Actor

> Unauthenticated attackers can extract sensitive data from restricted posts via the WordPress core search feature in the Simple Membership plugin.

- **Severity:** Medium 5.3 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Not needed
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 21 Nov 2024
- **Updated:** 8 Apr 2026
- **Also known as:** GHSA-mrp2-g378-9whc

## What is CVE-2024-11088?

CVE-2024-11088 is a medium-severity vulnerability in wpinsider-1 Simple Membership, published on 21 Nov 2024. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

The Simple Membership plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Sensitive Information Exposure in all versions up to, and including, 4.5.5 via the WordPress core search feature. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to extract sensitive data from posts that have been restricted to higher-level roles such as administrator.

Weakness: CWE-276 (Incorrect Default Permissions), CWE-200 (Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-11088?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Simple-Membership-Plugin Simple Membership.

## How do I fix CVE-2024-11088?

No fix has been published for CVE-2024-11088 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2024-11088 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-11088 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in wpinsider-1 Simple Membership

- [CVE-2022-2317](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-2317/): Simple Membership < 4.1.3 - Unauthenticated Membership Privilege Escalation (critical 9.8)
- [CVE-2023-41956](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-41956/): WordPress Simple Membership plugin <= 4.3.4 - Authenticated Account Takeover vulnerability (high 8.8)
- [CVE-2022-2273](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-2273/): Simple Membership < 4.1.3 - Membership Privilege Escalation (high 8.8)
- [CVE-2016-10884](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2016-10884/): Cross-site request forgery in n/a (high 8.8)
- [CVE-2019-14328](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2019-14328/): Cross-site request forgery in n/a (high 8.8)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2024-11088 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2024-11088 is a medium-severity vulnerability in wpinsider-1 Simple Membership, published on 21 Nov 2024. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-11088 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: wpinsider-1 Simple Membership. 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-2024-11088/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-11088/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-11088
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-11088
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2024-11088

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-11088/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.