The Simple Membership WordPress plugin before 4.7.7 does not verify that a PayPal payment notification was sent to the sites own configured merchant account before activating a membership, allowing unauthenticated users to activate or extend a membership using a payment made to an arbitrary PayPal account they control.
Weakness
The product does not sufficiently verify the origin or authenticity of data, in a way that causes it to accept invalid data.
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