🛡️ CVE-2023-4293 — premium-packages---sell-digital-products

🟠 CVSS 8.8 — High ⚠️ Exploit Public CWE-269 NVD
8.8
CVSS Score
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Description

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.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs low-level privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality high, integrity high, availability high.

Weakness class

CVE-2023-4293 is classified as CWE-269: Improper Privilege Management. Privileges are assigned, dropped or restored incorrectly, leaving an actor with more access than intended.

Affected software

CVE-2023-4293 is recorded against 1 package.

  • premium-packages---sell-digital-products-securely (fixed in 5.7.5)

Timeline and source

Published on 12 August 2023 and last revised on 17 June 2026. A public exploit is known to exist, which raises the urgency of patching considerably. A vendor advisory or fix has been published. Record sourced from NVD.

References

plugins.trac.wordpress.org
plugins.trac.wordpress.org
www.wordfence.com
plugins.trac.wordpress.org
plugins.trac.wordpress.org
www.wordfence.com

Details

Severity HIGH
CVSS Score 8.8
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE CWE-269
Public Exploit ⚠️ Yes
Source NVD
Published 2023-08-12
Updated 2026-08-11
Modified 2026-06-17

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
premium-packages---sell-digital-products-securely 5.7.5

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