CVE-2015-4038

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 8.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2015-06-03 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-264

Description

The WP Membership plugin 1.2.3 for WordPress allows remote authenticated users to gain administrator privileges via an iv_membership_update_user_settings action to wp-admin/admin-ajax.php.

Affected products

Wpmembership: 1.2.3

References

http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/132012/WordPress-WP-Membership-1.2.3-Privilege-Escalation.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/535587/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/535652/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/74766
https://wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/7998
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/132012/WordPress-WP-Membership-1.2.3-Privilege-Escalation.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/535587/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/535652/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/74766
https://wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/7998

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