🛡️ CVE-2023-4293 — premium-packages---sell-digital-products
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
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Affected Packages
| Software | From version | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| premium-packages---sell-digital-products-securely | — | 5.7.5 |
References
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