CyberRota Analysis
AI-GeneratedThe Simple Membership plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized data modification and sensitive information disclosure due to insufficient authentication checks on the resend-activation and email-activation endpoints. This flaw allows unauthenticated attackers to redirect activation emails, potentially gaining access to a member's username and plaintext password, and activate accounts without consent. WordPress site administrators using this plugin should prioritize applying patches to mitigate the risk of account compromise and data exposure.
Original NVD Description
The Simple Membership plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data and sensitive information disclosure in versions up to, and including, 4.8.3 via the resend-activation and email-activation endpoints. The endpoints are dispatched from SwpmInitTimeTasks::check_and_do_email_activation() on frontend init with no authentication, nonce, capability, or ownership check, and the recipient address used by SwpmRegistration::send_reg_email() is taken from an attacker-controlled $_POST['email'] parameter (overriding the member's registered address). This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to redirect an arbitrary pending member's activation email — and the follow-up 'registration complete' email containing the member's username and plaintext password — to an attacker-chosen address, and to then activate that member's account without their consent.