Vulnerability Details: Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) in Simple WordPress Membership (Simple Membership)
The plugin Simple WordPress Membership (Simple Membership) was closed on the Plugin Directory yesterday. That is one of the 1,000 most popular plugins, so we were alerted to its closure. While we were looking in to the plugin to see if there were any vulnerabilities, one issue we had already noticed was fixed with a new version. That being a cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability with the actions normally taken from the Bulk Operations tab of the plugin’s main admin page, which would allow an attacker to cause someone that is allowed to take those actions to take them without intending it.
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This post provides insights on a vulnerability in the WordPress plugin Simple Membership not discovered by us, where the discoverer hadn't provided the details needed for us to confirm the vulnerability while we were adding it to the data set for our service, so the rest of its contents are limited to subscribers of our service.
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