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CVE-2023-23488

A public proof of concept exists; no exploitation attested.

  • Published2023-01-20
  • Fixed in2.9.8
  • WeaknessCWE-89

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Description

The Paid Memberships Pro WordPress Plugin, version < 2.9.8, is affected by an unauthenticated SQL injection vulnerability in the 'code' parameter of the '/pmpro/v1/order' REST route.

Timeline

dates in UTC
  1. 2023-01-2018:15CVE publishedNVD
  2. 2023-04-03Exploit-DB entryExploit-DB

Observed activity

isMalicious corpus · updated 2026-11-03 21:37 UTC
Indicators tagged with this CVE, per day0 indicators over 7 days
Block these indicators
  • Firewall list (EDL, text): https://api.ismalicious.com/edl/cve/CVE-2023-23488?format=txt
  • CSV export: https://api.ismalicious.com/edl/cve/CVE-2023-23488?format=csv
  • TAXII collection of exploited CVEs
  • The EDL and CSV take an API key on the Pro plan.

Versions per branch

NVD
Strangerstudios paid memberships pro
BranchAffectedFixed in
2.9< 2.9.82.9.8

as publishedRanges as NVD and OSV publish them; a distribution’s build can be fixed under an older number.

Products declared by the CNA1 product

As tenable, the CNA that assigned this CVE, declared them in the CVE record; versions as written.

  • Paid Memberships Pro WordPress Plugin
    Affected
    • = < 2.9.8no fix stated

Source: the CNA record (CVE Program), © The MITRE Corporation,CVE Terms of UseCVE recordupdated 2023-04-03

Fix

  1. Update Strangerstudios paid memberships pro to 2.9.8

Detection

read 2026-11-03 22:42 UTC
Nuclei template
available
ProjectDiscovery
Exploit-DB
EDB-51235
Exploit-DB
Proof-of-concept repositories
2 repositories, unverifiedlong-rookie/CVE-2023-23488-PoCcybfar/CVE-2023-23488-pmpro-2.8
PoC-in-GitHub
Metasploit modules
1 moduleauxiliary/scanner/http/wp_paid_membership_pro_code_sqlirank: normalModule metadata: Metasploit Framework, © Rapid7, Inc., BSD-3-Clause.
Metasploit Framework

Sources

Identifiers

Technical details

CVSS v3 Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Published
2023-01-20
Last Modified
2026-06-17
NVD status
Modified
GitHub Advisory
GHSA-pppw-hpjp-v2p9

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2023-23488?

The Paid Memberships Pro WordPress Plugin, version < 2.9.8, is affected by an unauthenticated SQL injection vulnerability in the 'code' parameter of the '/pmpro/v1/order' REST route.

Is CVE-2023-23488 actively exploited?

A proof-of-concept exploit exists for CVE-2023-23488, but active exploitation has not been confirmed at this time.

What is the CVSS score for CVE-2023-23488?

CVE-2023-23488 has a CVSS v3 base score of 9.8 (CRITICAL severity), with vector string CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H.

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