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CVE-2024-10261: Paid Membership Subscriptions – Effortless Memberships, Recurring Payments & Content Restriction <= 2.13.0 - Unauthenticated Arbitrary Shortcode Execution

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.3 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2024-11-09 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-94

Description

The The Paid Membership Subscriptions – Effortless Memberships, Recurring Payments & Content Restriction plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to arbitrary shortcode execution in all versions up to, and including, 2.13.0. This is due to the software allowing users to execute an action that does not properly validate a value before running do_shortcode. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to execute arbitrary shortcodes.

Affected products

• cozmoslabs Paid Membership Subscriptions – Effortless Memberships, Recurring Payments & Content Restriction: before 2.13.1 — fixed in 2.13.1

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: cozmoslabs Paid Membership Subscriptions – Effortless Memberships, Recurring Payments & Content Restriction 2.13.1. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3182968/paid-member-subscriptions
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/eaf19371-7b06-45c6-bf16-6ef7dfffb175?source=cve

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