CVE-2024-11291: membership \& content restriction - paid member subscriptions vulnerability

What is known

The Paid Membership Subscriptions – Effortless Memberships, Recurring Payments & Content Restriction plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Sensitive Information Exposure in all versions up to, and including, 2.13.4 via the WordPress core search feature. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to extract sensitive data from posts that have been restricted to higher-level roles such as logged-in users.

Business impact

Successful exploitation of CVE-2024-11291, a medium vulnerability (CVSS 5.3) affecting membership \& content restriction - paid member subscriptions, may affect the confidentiality, integrity or availability of the vulnerable environment. The exact impact depends on the installed version, exposed interfaces and deployment configuration.

Recommended administrator action

Confirm whether membership \& content restriction - paid member subscriptions is present and compare installed versions with the vendor advisory and NVD record. Apply the vendor patch or documented mitigation; until remediation is complete, reduce exposure of affected interfaces, review relevant logs and monitor for indicators of exploitation. DataHouse can support version verification, managed patching, network exposure reduction, log review and backup validation for dedicated, cloud and colocated environments.

Sources

• NVD
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