# CVE-2024-5596: ARMember Premium <= 6.7 - Cross-Site Request Forgery via multiple functions

> Unauthenticated attackers can exploit CSRF to modify or delete user meta and plugin options, potentially leading to limited privilege escalation in ARMember Premium.

- **Severity:** Medium 6.3 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Not needed
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** A user has to click or open something
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 22 Jun 2024
- **Updated:** 8 Apr 2026
- **Also known as:** GHSA-546c-fhpx-wg8h

## What is CVE-2024-5596?

CVE-2024-5596 is a medium-severity vulnerability in ARMember Premium – Membership Plugin, Content Restriction, Member Levels, User Profile & User signup, published on 22 Jun 2024. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

### Official description

The ARMember Premium plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in versions up to, and including, 6.7. This is due to incorrectly implemented nonce validation function on multiple functions. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to modify, or delete user meta and plugin options which can lead to limited privilege escalation.

Weakness: CWE-352 (Cross-Site Request Forgery)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-5596?


## How do I fix CVE-2024-5596?

No fix has been published for CVE-2024-5596 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2024-5596 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-5596 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2024-5596 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2024-5596 is a medium-severity vulnerability in ARMember Premium – Membership Plugin, Content Restriction, Member Levels, User Profile & User signup, published on 22 Jun 2024. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-5596 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: ARMember Premium – 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-2024-5596/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-5596/index.md)
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## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-5596
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-5596
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2024-5596

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-5596/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.