Indeed Membership Pro 7.3 — 8.6 - Authentication Bypass
CVE-2020-36832Published · Updated Action summary
Affected: 7.3 – <8.6.1Update to 8.6.1 or newer
All remediation steps- Severity
- Critical9.8
- CVSS
- 9.8CVSS 3.1 · CNA (Wordfence)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HWhat does this vector mean?
AV:NAttack vector- Network
AC:LAttack complexity- Low
PR:NPrivileges required- None
UI:NUser interaction- None
S:UScope- Unchanged
C:HConfidentiality- High
I:HIntegrity- High
A:HAvailability- High
- Weakness
- CWE-287 Improper Authentication
- Required access
- No account needed
- Exploit prediction (EPSS)
- No score
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
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Am I affected?
Indeed Membership Pro indeed-membership-pro
- Affected7.3 – < 8.6.1
- Patched in8.6.1
Update to 8.6.1 or newer.
You are affected if you run 7.3 – < 8.6.1. Version 8.6.1 and later are not affected by this issue.
- Check your version: in wp-admin go to Plugins → Installed Plugins and read the version under Indeed Membership Pro.
- No admin access? Run a passive check of your site. It reads public files only.
- No account is needed to exploit this. Treat any exposed site on an affected version as at risk.
What to do
- Update to version 8.6.1, or a newer patched version
- Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
- Watch Indeed Membership Pro to get an email when the next vulnerability is published.
Advisory
Source description from Wordfence Intelligence, credited to Noman Riffat.
The Ultimate Membership Pro plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Authentication Bypass in versions between, and including, 7.3 to 8.6. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to login as any user, including the site administrator with a default user ID of 1, via the username or user ID.
Exploits & references
Proof-of-concept & detection
No public proof-of-concept or detection template is known for this vulnerability.
Advisories & patches
- Advisorywordfence.com
Related CVEs
More in Indeed Membership Pro
All 10| Severity | Vulnerability | CVE | Published |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medium5.3 | Missing Authorization ≤13.7Update to 13.7.1 | CVE-2026-25357 | |
| High8.1 | Unauthenticated PHP Object Injection ≤12.7Update to 12.8 | CVE-2024-43242 | |
| Critical9.8 | Unauthenticated Privilege Escalation ≤12.7Update to 12.8 | CVE-2024-43240 | |
| Medium6.1 | Reflected Cross-Site Scripting ≤12.7Update to 12.8 | CVE-2024-43241 | |
| High8.8 | Cross-Site Request Forgery <8.6.2Update to 8.6.2 | — |
- Medium5.3Missing Authorization
≤13.7Update to 13.7.1
- High8.1Unauthenticated PHP Object Injection
≤12.7Update to 12.8
- Critical9.8Unauthenticated Privilege Escalation
≤12.7Update to 12.8
- Medium6.1Reflected Cross-Site Scripting
≤12.7Update to 12.8
- High8.8Cross-Site Request Forgery
<8.6.2Update to 8.6.2
Timeline
CVE published
Severity critical, CVSS 9.8
Record last updated
Sources & licenses
Wordfence record- Vulnerability data
- Wordfence Intelligence. Copyright 2012-2026 Defiant Inc. Licensed under the CC BY-SA 4.0.
- CVE® identifiers
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- CVSS / CWE
- National Vulnerability Database (NVD), shown unmodified. This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.
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- Summary, remediation guidance and page layout © VulnCrest. Not sourced from NVD.