Attack ChainAIDerived
Hypothetical attack flow derived from CVE metadata – not a confirmed exploit chain
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AccessLure authenticated admin to malicious page
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DeliveryBrowser auto-submits forged plugin request
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ExploitMissing CSRF nonce check bypassed
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ExecutionPrivileged action executed as victim
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ImpactMembership/plugin state altered
Vulnerability Assessment
| Weakness |
CWE
OWASP Top 10:2025
A01:2025 - Broken Access Control
ASVS 5.0
V3 - Web Frontend Security Anti-CSRF tokens, SameSite cookies
MITRE ATT&CK
1 technique across 1 tactic: Initial Access The technique list with ATT&CK links and the kill-chain view is part of the Basic plan and up. |
| Exploitation Conditions | Exploitation requires an authenticated, privileged victim (effectively a WordPress administrator or logged-in member with Memberful management rights) to be actively logged in AND to be socially engineered into visiting an attacker-controlled page or clicking a crafted link while that session is valid (UI:R). The vulnerable Memberful plugin endpoint must lack proper CSRF nonce/token validation; the specific setting or action affected is not named in the Patchstack advisory. Limiting factors: no attacker authentication to the target is needed, but success is bounded by the required user interaction and the victim's active privileged session - it cannot be triggered against a logged-out user or without the victim's browser action, and it affects installations running Memberful through version 1.81.0. |
| Impact | This is a CWE-352 Cross-Site Request Forgery flaw in the Memberful WordPress membership plugin (versions up to and including 1.81.0), reported by Patchstack. The Patchstack/NVD CVSS 3.1 vector (AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H = 8.0 High) claims full confidentiality, integrity and availability impact, which is unusually high for a CSRF issue and typically reflects a state-changing action (e.g. settings modification or privileged operation) forced in an authenticated administrator's browser. No EPSS score, no CISA KEV listing, and no public proof-of-concept are present in the supplied data, so there is no public exploit identified at time of analysis and no evidence of active exploitation - real-world risk is gated primarily by the need for social engineering. The signals are therefore somewhat conflicting: the raw score is High, but every successful attack is bounded by UI:R (an authenticated victim, in practice an admin, must visit an attacker-controlled page while logged in), making this a realistic-but-not-wormable, targeted-phishing-dependent issue rather than a mass-exploitation priority. One discrepancy to verify with the vendor: CSRF normally carries PR:N (the attacker holds no privileges; the victim's session supplies them), yet the input lists PR:L - the precise privilege level of the tricked victim and the exact affected action are not detailed in the terse Patchstack description and should be confirmed before relying on the C:H/I:H/A:H impact rating. |
| Exploit ScenarioDerived | An attacker crafts a malicious web page (or email link) containing a hidden auto-submitting form or forged request targeting a Memberful plugin endpoint that lacks CSRF nonce validation. When a logged-in WordPress administrator or privileged member visits the page while their session is active, the browser silently submits the forged request, performing an unintended state-changing action (such as altering plugin/membership configuration) with the victim's privileges. No public PoC is available, and success requires the victim to be authenticated and to interact with the attacker-supplied content (UI:R). |
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Alert meAnalysisAIv1 – Oct 01, 2026
Cross-site request forgery in the Memberful - Membership Plugin for WordPress (memberful-wp, all versions through 1.81.0) allows an attacker to lure a logged-in privileged user to an attacker-controlled page or crafted link and cause that user's browser to submit forged requests to a vulnerable Memberful endpoint, potentially changing membership or account state that the victim is authorized to modify. The attacker needs no authentication to the target site, but success depends entirely on the victim holding an active privileged session (a WordPress administrator or a logged-in member with Memberful management rights) and on the victim's own browser action, so exploitation cannot occur against a logged-out user and impact is bounded to state changes the victim could legitimately perform. No public exploit code and no confirmed active exploitation (CISA KEV) were identified at time of analysis; Patchstack reports this at CVSS 8.0 (AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H), while independent assessment rates it lower as CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N given the mandatory user interaction and session prerequisites.
RemediationAI
No vendor-released patch version is identified in the available advisory data, so the primary action is to monitor the Patchstack record (https://patchstack.com/database/wordpress/plugin/memberful-wp/vulnerability/wordpress-memberful-membership-plugin-plugin-1-81-0-cross-site-request-forgery-csrf-vulnerability?_s_id=cve) and the plugin's WordPress.org page for a fixed release and update the plugin as soon as one is published; if the plugin is not essential, deactivating and removing Memberful eliminates the exposure entirely, at the cost of losing membership/subscription functionality on the site. Until a fix is available, compensating controls include enforcing SameSite=Lax or Strict attributes on WordPress authentication cookies to blunt cross-site request delivery (Strict can break legitimate cross-site login/SSO and embedded flows), placing a WAF or reverse-proxy rule set in front of the site that blocks state-changing requests lacking same-origin Referer/Origin headers or valid nonces (expect false positives on legitimate admin traffic and the need for tuning), restricting access to /wp-admin/ and the plugin's admin endpoints to trusted IP ranges or a VPN so the privileged session cannot be reached from arbitrary networks, and reducing the exposure window by having administrators and Memberful managers log out after finishing privileged work and avoid clicking untrusted links or opening untrusted pages while logged in. None of these substitutes for a patched plugin version, which remains the only complete fix once it exists.
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Source: OSV (Open Source Vulnerabilities)
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Technical ContextAI · show details
This is a CWE-352 (Cross-Site Request Forgery) weakness in a WordPress plugin. WordPress authenticates users with cookies, and browsers automatically attach those cookies to any request sent to the site's domain, including requests generated from a third-party page the victim is visiting. If a plugin endpoint that performs a state-changing action (for example toggling membership settings, modifying user/member records, or changing plugin configuration) does not validate an anti-CSRF token such as a WordPress nonce (wp_nonce / check_admin_referer) or otherwise verify the request origin, an attacker can forge that request on behalf of a logged-in victim. The Patchstack advisory does not name the specific vulnerable endpoint or action, so the exact forged operation is unknown, but the affected component is identified by CPE cpe:2.3:a:memberful:memberful_-_membership_plugin:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* covering all releases up to and including 1.81.0. The root cause class (CSRF) explains why no authentication against the target is required from the attacker: the victim's own authenticated session is the vector. Note the scoring divergence between the reporter's vector (PR:L, C:H/I:H/A:H) and the independent assessment (PR:N, C:L/I:L/A:N), which reflects that any successful forgery is limited to actions the victim is already permitted to perform, requires interactive victim participation, and does not by itself yield full confidentiality, integrity, or availability loss.
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Severity by source
AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CSRF means the attacker holds no privileges (PR:N) and relies on a tricked authenticated victim (UI:R); absent a named high-impact action, I rate impact conservatively as limited integrity/confidentiality, not full CIA.
Primary rating from Vendor (Patchstack).
CVSS VectorVendor: Patchstack
DescriptionCVE.org
Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in Memberful Memberful - Membership Plugin memberful-wp allows Cross Site Request Forgery.This issue affects Memberful - Membership Plugin: from n/a through 1.81.0.
Executive ViewAI
The Memberful membership plugin for WordPress (all versions through 1.81.0) contains a cross-site request forgery vulnerability that could allow an attacker to trick a logged-in administrator or membership manager into making unauthorized changes to membership or account settings. This could lead to unauthorized membership modifications, data integrity issues, and potential revenue or customer trust impact for organizations using the plugin. No vendor-released patch identified at time of analysis; leadership should prioritize interim mitigations and monitoring.
No vendor-released patch identified at time of analysis. Interim mitigations include disabling or removing the Memberful plugin (all versions through 1.81.0) until a patch is available, enforcing strict CSRF tokens via a WAF, limiting administrative access, requiring re-authentication for sensitive actions, and monitoring for unexpected membership changes.
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Attack Technique
Cross-Site Request Forgery exploits the automatic credential inclusion behavior of web browsers.
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