A vulnerability was found in membership-simplified-for-oap-members-only 1.58 on WordPress (WordPress Plugin) and classified as critical. This issue affects an unknown code of the file membership-simplified-for-oap-members-only/download.php of the component File Download. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a unrestricted upload vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-434. The product allows the attacker to upload or transfer files of dangerous types that can be automatically processed within the product's environment. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

Vulnerability in wordpress plugin membership-simplified-for-oap-members-only v1.58, The file download code located membership-simplified-for-oap-members-only/download.php does not check whether a user is logged in and has download privileges.

The bug was discovered 03/13/2017. The weakness was released 09/14/2017 as EDB-ID 41622 as not defined exploit (Exploit-DB). It is possible to read the advisory at exploit-db.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2017-1002008 since 09/14/2017. The attack may be initiated remotely. No form of authentication is needed for a successful exploitation. Technical details as well as a public exploit are known. The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1608.002 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

The exploit is available at exploit-db.com. It is declared as proof-of-concept. The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 185 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $0-$5k. By approaching the search of inurl:membership-simplified-for-oap-members-only/download.php it is possible to find vulnerable targets with Google Hacking. The commercial vulnerability scanner Qualys is able to test this issue with plugin 11777 (WordPress Membership Simplified Plugin Arbitrary File Download Vulnerability).

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at Exploit-DB (41622).

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