CVE-2022-2273

CVE-2022-2273: Simple Membership < 4.1.3 - Membership Privilege Escalation

Vendor Unknown

Product Simple Membership

Weakness CWE-269

Published August 1, 2022

Last update August 3, 2024

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What the vulnerability does

01Description

The Simple Membership WordPress plugin before 4.1.3 does not properly validate the membership_level parameter when editing a profile, allowing members to escalate to a higher membership level by using a crafted POST request.

Key dates

02Disclosure timeline

August 1, 2022 CVE published

August 3, 2024 Record updated

External resources

03References

NVD — National Vulnerability Database https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-2273 CWE — Common Weakness Enumeration https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/269.html

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