# CVE-2024-1279: Paid Memberships Pro < 2.12.9 - Contributor+ Arbitrary User Custom Field Disclosure

> Contributors can leak sensitive metadata of other users in the Paid Memberships Pro WordPress plugin.

- **Severity:** Medium 4.3 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Any signed-in user
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 11 Mar 2024
- **Updated:** 28 Mar 2025
- **Also known as:** GHSA-683m-h868-4cxr

## What is CVE-2024-1279?

CVE-2024-1279 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Unknown Paid Memberships Pro, published on 11 Mar 2024. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

The Paid Memberships Pro WordPress plugin before 2.12.9 does not prevent user with at least the contributor role from leaking other users' sensitive metadata.

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-1279?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Strangerstudios Paid Memberships Pro.

## How do I fix CVE-2024-1279?

No fix has been published for CVE-2024-1279 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2024-1279 being exploited?

It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2024-1279 exists.

## Other vulnerabilities in Unknown Paid Memberships Pro

- [CVE-2023-23488](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-23488/): SQL injection in Paid Memberships Pro WordPress Plugin (critical 9.8)
- [CVE-2021-25114](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2021-25114/): Paid Memberships Pro < 2.6.7 - Unauthenticated Blind SQL Injection (critical 9.8)
- [CVE-2023-0631](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-0631/): Paid Memberships Pro < 2.9.12 - Subscriber+ SQL Injection (high 8.8)
- [CVE-2021-20678](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2021-20678/): SQL injection in Paid Memberships Pro (high 8.8)
- [CVE-2024-37486](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-37486/): WordPress Paid Memberships Pro plugin <= 3.0.5 - Authenticated SQL Injection vulnerability (high 7.6)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2024-1279 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2024-1279 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Unknown Paid Memberships Pro, published on 11 Mar 2024. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2024-1279 exists.

Affected product: Unknown Paid Memberships Pro. 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-2024-1279/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-1279/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-1279
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-1279
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2024-1279

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-1279/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.