What is CVE-2015-5532?

CVE-2015-5532 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Strangerstudios Paid Memberships Pro, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 6.1/10. Published 2017-10-23.

How severe is CVE-2015-5532?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.1 out of 10.

Is CVE-2015-5532 known to be exploited?

1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

XSS in Strangerstudios Paid Memberships Pro

CVE-2015-5532

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in the Paid Memberships Pro (PMPro) plugin before 1.8.4.3 for WordPress allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the (1) s parameter to membershiplevels.php, (2) memberslist.php, or (3) orders.php in adminpages/ or the (4) edit parameter to adminpages/membershiplevels.php.

Vulnerability class: XSS (Cross-Site Scripting)

Published 2017-10-23 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 6.1 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.021 (80.6th percentile), scored 2026-09-30.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 81st percentile — 80.6% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.021 · newest: 0.021 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Strangerstudios Paid Memberships Pro

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-79 — Cross-site Scripting

Public proof-of-concept exploits

20142995/nuclei-templates

References

wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/8109 (Third Party Advisory)
www.htbridge.com/advisory/HTB23264 (Broken Link)
github.com/strangerstudios/paid-memberships-pro/commit/add03e3ed90e9163e5a46e20… (Patch, Third Party Advisory)
wordpress.org/plugins/paid-memberships-pro/ (Third Party Advisory, Release Notes)
packetstormsecurity.com/files/132812/WordPress-Paid-Memberships-Pro-1.8.4.2-Cro… (Exploit, VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory)
www.paidmembershipspro.com/2015/07/pmpro-updates-1-8-4-3-and-1-8-4-4/ (Third Party Advisory, Release Notes)
www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/536057/100/0/threaded (mailing-list, Exploit, VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2015-5532?: CVE-2015-5532 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Strangerstudios Paid Memberships Pro, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 6.1/10. Published 2017-10-23.
How severe is CVE-2015-5532?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.1 out of 10.
Is CVE-2015-5532 known to be exploited?: 1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.