Description
WordPress Plugin Membership For WooCommerce-Add Simple Membership Plans, Recurring Revenue, Product Tags & Send Emails To Members with WooCommerce Membership is prone to a vulnerability that lets attackers upload arbitrary files because the application fails to properly verify user-supplied input. An attacker can exploit this vulnerability to upload arbitrary code and run it in the context of the webserver process. This may facilitate unauthorized access or privilege escalation; other attacks are also possible. WordPress Plugin Membership For WooCommerce-Add Simple Membership Plans, Recurring Revenue, Product Tags & Send Emails To Members with WooCommerce Membership version 2.1.6 is vulnerable; prior versions may also be affected.
Remediation
Update to plugin version 2.1.7 or latest
References
https://sploitus.com/exploit?id=WPEX-ID:80407AC4-8CE3-4DF7-9C41-007B69045C40
https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/membership-for-woocommerce/trunk/README.txt
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