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CVE-2023-0254: Simple Membership WP user Import <= 1.7 - Authenticated (Admin+) SQL Injection

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.9 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2023-01-12 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-89

Description

The Simple Membership WP user Import plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to SQL Injection via the ‘orderby’ parameter in versions up to, and including, 1.7 due to insufficient escaping on the user supplied parameter. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers with administrative privileges to append additional SQL queries into already existing queries that can be used to extract sensitive information from the database.

Affected products

• wpinsider-1 Simple Membership WP user Import: before 1.8 — fixed in 1.8

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: wpinsider-1 Simple Membership WP user Import 1.8. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=2829005%40simple-membership-wp-user-import&new=2829005%40simple-membership-wp-user-import&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/6f781533-b633-4452-95bd-c32ed0de2ea9?source=cve
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=2829005%40simple-membership-wp-user-import&new=2829005%40simple-membership-wp-user-import&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/6f781533-b633-4452-95bd-c32ed0de2ea9

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