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WordPress Plugin Simple Membership SQL Injection (4.0.3)

Description

WordPress Plugin Simple Membership is prone to an SQL injection vulnerability because it fails to sufficiently sanitize user-supplied data before using it in an SQL query. Exploiting this issue could allow an attacker to compromise the application, access or modify data, or exploit latent vulnerabilities in the underlying database. WordPress Plugin Simple Membership version 4.0.3 is vulnerable; prior versions may also be affected.

Remediation

Update to plugin version 4.0.4 or latest

References

https://www.trustwave.com/en-us/resources/security-resources/security-advisories/?fid=28672

https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/simple-membership/trunk/readme.txt

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Severity

High

Classification

CVE-2021-29232 CWE-89 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Tags

Missing Update SQL Injection

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