# 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.

- **Severity:** Medium 5.3 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/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:** 5 Nov 2025
- **Updated:** 8 Apr 2026
- **Also known as:** GHSA-93gj-8p48-h7f8

## 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 (Missing Authorization)

## 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.

## Is CVE-2025-11835 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-11835 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2025-11835 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: 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.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-11835 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: cozmoslabs Paid Membership Subscriptions – Effortless Memberships, Recurring Payments & Content Restriction. 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-2025-11835/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-11835/index.md)
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## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-11835
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-11835
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2025-11835

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-11835/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.