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CVE-2023-4293: Premium Packages - Sell Digital Products Securely <= 5.7.4 - Arbitrary User Meta Update to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Privilege Escalation
- Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.1)
- Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
- EPSS: 1.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
- Public exploit or detection template: yes
- Published: 2023-08-12 · updated 2026-06-17
- Weakness: CWE-269
Description
The Premium Packages - Sell Digital Products Securely plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation in versions up to, and including, 5.7.4 due to insufficient restriction on the 'wpdmpp_update_profile' function. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with minimal permissions such as a subscriber, to modify their user role by supplying the 'profile[role]' parameter during a profile update.
Affected products
References
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wpdm-premium-packages/tags/5.7.4/wpdm-premium-packages.php#L1158
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/2951917/wpdm-premium-packages#file5
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/82137302-60ca-44d5-b087-dc96e2815fca?source=cve
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wpdm-premium-packages/tags/5.7.4/wpdm-premium-packages.php#L1158
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/2951917/wpdm-premium-packages#file5
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/82137302-60ca-44d5-b087-dc96e2815fca?source=cve
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