CVE-2023-4293 (GCVE-0-2023-4293)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2023-08-12 07:42
Modified
2026-04-08 17:03
Severity ?
8.8 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • CWE-269 - Improper Privilege Management
Summary
The Premium Packages - Sell Digital Products Securely plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation in versions up to, and including, 5.7.4 due to insufficient restriction on the 'wpdmpp_update_profile' function. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with minimal permissions such as a subscriber, to modify their user role by supplying the 'profile[role]' parameter during a profile update.
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
codename065 Premium Packages – Sell Digital Products Securely Version: 0   ≤ 5.7.4
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