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.
Published: 2023-08-12
Score: 8.8 High
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Advisories
Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2023-54164 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.
History

Wed, 08 Apr 2026 17:45:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
Title Premium Packages - Sell Digital Products Securely <= 5.7.4 - Arbitrary User Meta Update to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Privilege Escalation
Weaknesses CWE-269

Wed, 05 Feb 2025 20:15:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
Metrics ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'total'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}


Subscriptions

Wpdownloadmanager Premium Packages - Sell Digital Products Securely
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: Wordfence

Published:

Updated: 2026-04-08T17:03:53.250Z

Reserved: 2023-08-10T12:51:45.345Z

Link: CVE-2023-4293

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-02T07:24:04.568Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2023-08-12T08:15:09.240

Modified: 2026-04-08T18:18:14.107

Link: CVE-2023-4293

cve-icon Redhat

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cve-icon OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses