CVE-2022-4939: THe WCFM Membership plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation in versions up to, and including 2.10.0, due to a missing capability check on the wp_ajax_nopriv_wcfm_ajax_controller AJA

critical Affects wc-multivendor-membership (WordPress plugin). Feed 2026.10.29.1, updated 2026-10-28; published ; advisory modified .

THe WCFM Membership plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation in versions up to, and including 2.10.0, due to a missing capability check on the wp_ajax_nopriv_wcfm_ajax_controller AJA

Package
wc-multivendor-membership (WordPress plugin) WordPress
Affected versions
<2.10.1
Fixed in
2.10.1
Severity
critical  CVSS 9.8
Exploitation
not on CISA KEV · EPSS 2% (81.6th percentile)
Published
2023-04-05
Source
nvd

References

CWE-862
NVD recordwc-multivendor-membership (WordPress plugin) advisories

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