Vulnerability · Published Nov 5, 2025 · Assigned by Wordfence
CVE-2025-11835Paid Membership Subscriptions – Effortless Memberships, Recurring Payments & Content Restriction <= 2.16.4 - Missing Authorization to Unauthenticated Arbitrary Member Subscription Auto Renewal
Medium 5.3
In plain English
A medium-severity missing authorization in Paid Membership Subscriptions – Effortless Memberships, Recurring Payments & Content Restriction from cozmoslabs. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.2% (higher than 14% of all known vulnerabilities).
Official description
The Paid Membership Subscriptions – Effortless Memberships, Recurring Payments & Content Restriction plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability and validation check on the PMS_AJAX_Checkout_Handler::process_payment() function in all versions up to, and including, 2.16.4. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to trigger stored auto-renew charges for arbitrary members.
Affected products (as reported)
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
| cozmoslabs | Paid Membership Subscriptions – Effortless Memberships, Recurring Payments & Content Restriction | 0 – through 2.16.4 |
Weakness: CWE-862 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N