Paid Memberships Pro <= 2.12.8 — Authenticated (Contributor+) User Meta Disclosure
f6c5e3f8-ebbd-4cc3-b9b1-3f1704e3c07aPublished · Updated Action summary
Affected: ≤2.12.8Update to 2.12.9 or newer
All remediation steps- Severity
- Medium4.3
- CVSS
- 4.3CVSS 3.1 · CNA (Wordfence)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:NWhat does this vector mean?
AV:NAttack vector- Network
AC:LAttack complexity- Low
PR:LPrivileges required- Low
UI:NUser interaction- None
S:UScope- Unchanged
C:LConfidentiality- Low
I:NIntegrity- None
A:NAvailability- None
- Weakness
- CWE-200 Information Exposure
- Required access
- Unknown
- Exploit prediction (EPSS)
- No score
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
On this page8
Am I affected?
Paid Memberships Pro – Content Restriction, User Registration, & Paid Subscriptions paid-memberships-pro
- Affected≤ 2.12.8
- Patched in2.12.9
Update to 2.12.9 or newer.
You are affected if you run ≤ 2.12.8. Version 2.12.9 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 Memberships Pro – Content Restriction, User Registration, & Paid Subscriptions.
- No admin access? Run a passive check of your site. It reads public files only.
What to do
- Update to version 2.12.9, or a newer patched version
- Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
- Watch Paid Memberships Pro – Content Restriction, User Registration, & Paid Subscriptions to get an email when the next vulnerability is published.
Advisory
Source description from Wordfence Intelligence, credited to Scott Kingsley Clark.
The Paid Memberships Pro – Content Restriction, User Registration, & Paid Subscriptions plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Sensitive Information Exposure in all versions up to, and including, 2.12.8 via the pmpro_member shortcode. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with contributor-level access and above, to extract potentially sensitive data about users by utilizing the shortcode to display user meta field.
Exploits & references
Proof-of-concept & detection
No public proof-of-concept or detection template is known for this vulnerability.
Advisories & patches
- Advisorywordfence.com
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Timeline
CVE published
Severity medium, CVSS 4.3
Record last updated
Sources & licenses
- Vulnerability data
- Wordfence Intelligence. Copyright 2012-2026 Defiant Inc. Licensed under the CC BY-SA 4.0.
- 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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