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CVE-2024-12919: Paid Membership Subscriptions – Effortless Memberships, Recurring Payments & Content Restriction <= 2.13.7 - Authentication Bypass via pms_payment_id

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2025-01-14 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-287

Description

The Paid Membership Subscriptions – Effortless Memberships, Recurring Payments & Content Restriction plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Authentication Bypass in all versions up to, and including, 2.13.7. This is due to the pms_pb_payment_redirect_link function using the user-controlled value supplied via the 'pms_payment_id' parameter to authenticate users without any further identity validation. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers with knowledge of a valid payment ID to log in as any user who has made a purchase on the targeted site.

Affected products

• cozmoslabs Paid Membership Subscriptions – Effortless Memberships, Recurring Payments & Content Restriction: before 2.13.8 — fixed in 2.13.8

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: cozmoslabs Paid Membership Subscriptions – Effortless Memberships, Recurring Payments & Content Restriction 2.13.8. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3214706/paid-member-subscriptions
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/d3a4fa4d-a7d2-4890-b0f5-5fe69bc5e7ac?source=cve

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