CVE-2015-4038

MEDIUM 6.5CVE-2015-4038 · Published 03/06/2015 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2015-4038 is a MEDIUM (CVSS 6.5) vulnerability affecting wpmembership (wpmembership).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 8.3%, higher than 94.9% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
wpmembership wpmembership	`= 1.2.3`	No fix yet

Description

The WP Membership plugin 1.2.3 for WordPress allows remote authenticated users to gain administrator privileges via an iv_membership_update_user_settings action to wp-admin/admin-ajax.php.

References

packetstormsecurity.com/files/132012/WordPress-WP-Membership-1.2.3-Privilege-Escalation.html · Exploit
securityfocus.com/archive/1/535587/100/0/threaded
securityfocus.com/archive/1/535652/100/0/threaded
securityfocus.com/bid/74766
wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/7998

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