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Network CSRF with no attacker privileges but requiring a logged-in admin to interact (UI:R); forged admin action yields high impact to member data integrity, confidentiality, and availability.
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CVSS VectorVendor: patchstack
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1DescriptionCVE.org
Unauthenticated Cross Site Request Forgery (CSRF) in Paid Memberships Pro - Add Member From Admin <= 0.7.2 versions.
AnalysisAI
Cross-Site Request Forgery in the WordPress plugin 'Paid Memberships Pro - Add Member From Admin' (versions 0.7.2 and earlier) lets a remote attacker forge privileged member-management actions by tricking a logged-in administrator into loading a malicious page. Because the plugin's member-add functionality lacks valid CSRF nonce protection (CWE-352), an attacker can abuse the admin's authenticated session to create or modify membership records, yielding high confidentiality, integrity, and availability impact. No public exploit identified at time of analysis, and the issue is not listed in CISA KEV; EPSS data was not supplied.
Technical ContextAI
The affected component is an add-on extending the popular Paid Memberships Pro membership/subscription framework for WordPress, specifically the administrative 'Add Member From Admin' workflow that provisions member accounts and membership levels. The root cause is CWE-352 (Cross-Site Request Forgery): the plugin processes state-changing admin requests without verifying a unique, unpredictable anti-CSRF token (WordPress nonce) tied to the user session. As a result, the server cannot distinguish a legitimate admin-initiated form submission from a request forged by an attacker-controlled page that rides on the admin's existing authenticated cookies. No CPE strings were provided in the input, so exact affected configurations are derived from the plugin name and the stated version ceiling (<= 0.7.2).
RemediationAI
Patch status: no exact fixed version was provided in the input, and the only reference is a Patchstack advisory rather than a tagged release, so treat the fix as not independently confirmed and update to the latest available release of 'Paid Memberships Pro - Add Member From Admin' above 0.7.2 once published - consult the Patchstack advisory (https://patchstack.com/database/wordpress/plugin/pmpro-add-member-admin/vulnerability/wordpress-paid-memberships-pro-add-member-from-admin-plugin-0-7-2-cross-site-request-forgery-csrf-vulnerability?_s_id=cve) and the plugin's WordPress.org page for the patched version. As compensating controls until a confirmed patch is applied: deactivate the 'Add Member From Admin' add-on if member provisioning can be done through core PMPro (trade-off: loss of the bulk/admin add-member convenience); deploy a WAF or Patchstack virtual patch rule to enforce referer/origin checks on the plugin's admin-ajax/admin-post endpoints (trade-off: possible false positives on legitimate admin actions); and instruct administrators to log out of wp-admin when not in use and avoid browsing untrusted sites in the same session (trade-off: operational friction, partial mitigation only since it relies on user behavior).
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External POC / Exploit Code
Leaving vuln.today
EUVD-2026-39664
GHSA-2c8x-qv4p-jqcj