23 Jul 2019

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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