Raw vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:NSummary
CVE-2024-0588 is a medium-severity CSRF (CWE-352) vulnerability in Strangerstudios Paid Memberships Pro. Its CVSS base score is 4.3 (Medium).
Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Exploit Public-Facing Application (T1190); ranked in the top 43% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
The strongest mitigations our analysis identified map to AC-3 (Access Enforcement) and SC-23 (Session Authenticity) — see the control section below for these in your framework.
Deeper analysis AI-assisted summary
Synthesised by an AI model from the NVD description and linked references — a reading aid, not an authoritative source.
The Paid Memberships Pro plugin for WordPress, in versions up to and including 2.12.10, contains a cross-site request forgery vulnerability stemming from missing nonce validation in the pmpro_lifter_save_streamline_option function. This flaw affects the plugin's compatibility layer with Lifter LMS and is tracked under CWE-352 with a CVSS score of 4.3.
Unauthenticated attackers can exploit the issue by crafting malicious requests that enable the streamline setting when a site administrator is tricked into performing an action such as clicking a link. Successful exploitation grants the attacker the ability to modify this specific configuration option without authentication.
Advisories from Wordfence and changesets in the WordPress plugin repository indicate that the vulnerability was addressed in version 3.0 through updates to the lifterlms.php compatibility file.
The EPSS score remains low with a current value of 0.0932 and a peak of 0.0955, and no information on active exploitation is provided in the references.
OWASP Top 10 for Web (2025)
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2024-16381
Vulnerability Data
The Paid Memberships Pro – Content Restriction, User Registration, & Paid Subscriptions plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in all versions up to, and including, 2.12.10. This is due to missing nonce validation on the pmpro_lifter_save_streamline_option() function.…
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This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to enable the streamline setting with Lifter LMS via a forged request granted they can trick a site administrator into performing an action such as clicking on a link. CVE-2024-32793 and CVE-2024-32794 appear to be a duplicate of this issue.
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Mitigating Controls (NIST 800-53 r5) AI
Access enforcement requires verifying that state-changing requests originate from the authenticated user rather than a forged cross-site source.
Protecting session authenticity prevents attackers from replaying or forging authenticated requests via the victim's browser.
Mitigating Controls (NIST CSF 2.0) AI
Derived directly from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry via our AI-authored CWE→CSF cross-walk (authority under review) — links open the control.
Secure SDLC practices directly require anti-CSRF controls such as tokens or SameSite attributes.
Mitigating Controls (ISO/IEC 27001:2022 Annex A) AI
Derived directly from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry via our AI-authored CWE→ISO cross-walk (authority under review) — links open the control.
By denying access to phishing or malicious sites, the control lowers the likelihood that a user will be tricked into submitting a forged request that performs an unintended action on another site.
Contextual intelligence about emerging CSRF toolkits can be translated into updated anti-CSRF token or same-site policy configurations across applications.