Indeed Membership Pro <= 12.7 — Unauthenticated Privilege Escalation
CVE-2024-43240Published · Updated Action summary
Affected: ≤12.7Update to 12.8 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
- 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
- Affected≤ 12.7
- Patched in12.8
Update to 12.8 or newer.
You are affected if you run ≤ 12.7. Version 12.8 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 12.8, 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 Rafie Muhammad.
The Indeed Membership Pro plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation in all versions up to, and including, 12.7. This is due to the plugin not properly restricting access to functionality that allows privilege assignment. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to gain access to accounts that have higher privileges, such as administrator.
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 | |
| 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 | — | |
| High8.8 | Cross-Site Request Forgery <8.7Update to 8.7 | — |
- Medium5.3Missing Authorization
≤13.7Update to 13.7.1
- High8.1Unauthenticated PHP Object Injection
≤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
- High8.8Cross-Site Request Forgery
<8.7Update to 8.7
Timeline
CVE published
Severity critical, CVSS 9.8
Record last updated
Sources & licenses
Wordfence record- Vulnerability data
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