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Paid Member Subscriptions <= 3.0.0 — Missing Authorization

CVE-2026-90951Published · Updated

Action summary

Affected: ≤3.0.0Update to 3.1.0 or newer

All remediation steps
Severity
Medium5.3
CVSS
5.3
CVSS 3.1 · CNA (Wordfence)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
What does this vector mean?
AV:N Attack vector
Network
AC:L Attack complexity
Low
PR:N Privileges required
None
UI:N User interaction
None
S:U Scope
Unchanged
C:N Confidentiality
None
I:L Integrity
Low
A:N Availability
None
Weakness
CWE-863 Incorrect Authorization
Required access
No account needed
Exploit prediction (EPSS)
No score
CISA KEV
Not listed

Am I affected?

Paid Membership Subscriptions – Effortless Memberships, Recurring Payments & Content Restriction paid-member-subscriptions

  1. Affected≤ 3.0.0
  2. Patched in3.1.0

Update to 3.1.0 or newer.

You are affected if you run ≤ 3.0.0. Version 3.1.0 and later are not affected by this issue.

  • Check your version: in wp-admin go to Plugins → Installed Plugins and read the version under Paid Membership Subscriptions – Effortless Memberships, Recurring Payments & Content Restriction.
  • 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

  1. Update to version 3.1.0, or a newer patched version
  2. Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
  3. Watch Paid Membership Subscriptions – Effortless Memberships, Recurring Payments & Content Restriction to get an email when the next vulnerability is published.

Advisory

Source description from Wordfence Intelligence, credited to vuxvinh.

The Paid Member Subscriptions plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized access in all versions up to, and including, 3.0.0. This is due to a missing capability check on a function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to perform an unauthorized action.

Exploits & references

Proof-of-concept & detection

No public proof-of-concept or detection template is known for this vulnerability.

Advisories & patches

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Timeline

  1. CVE published

    Severity medium, CVSS 5.3

  2. Record last updated

Sources & licenses

Wordfence record
Vulnerability data
Wordfence Intelligence. [object Object] Licensed under the CC BY-SA 4.0.
CVE® identifiers
[object Object]. Used under the CVE Program. CVE® is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation.
CVSS / CWE
National Vulnerability Database (NVD), shown unmodified. This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.
VulnCrest content
Summary, remediation guidance and page layout © VulnCrest. Not sourced from NVD.

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