CVE-2025-11835 Missing authorization in Paid Membership Subscriptions – Effortless Memberships, Recurring Payments & Content Restriction
Unauthenticated attackers can trigger auto-renew charges for arbitrary members due to missing authorization checks in the payment handler.
- 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-2025-11835?
CVE-2025-11835 is a medium-severity missing authorization vulnerability in cozmoslabs Paid Membership Subscriptions – Effortless Memberships, Recurring Payments & Content Restriction, published on 5 Nov 2025. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Official description
The Paid Membership Subscriptions – Effortless Memberships, Recurring Payments & Content Restriction plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability and validation check on the PMS_AJAX_Checkout_Handler::process_payment() function in all versions up to, and including, 2.16.4. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to trigger stored auto-renew charges for arbitrary members.
Weakness: CWE-862
Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-11835?
How do I fix CVE-2025-11835?
No fix has been published for CVE-2025-11835 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Upgrade, and check permissions on every request on the server, not only in the interface. More about Missing authorization.
Is CVE-2025-11835 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-11835 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Sources
Also known as GHSA-93gj-8p48-h7f8.