CVE-2024-30514
Official description Straight from the sourceThe vendor's or NVD's own wording, published unedited. Authoritative, but often terse — it says what broke, rarely what to do.
NVD · uneditedInsertion of Sensitive Information into Log File vulnerability in Paid Memberships Pro Paid Memberships Pro – Payfast Gateway Add On.This issue affects Paid Memberships Pro – Payfast Gateway Add On: from n/a through 1.4.1.
Technical summary Written by usOur analysis, written from the advisory, the CVSS vector and the affected-version data. It adds context the advisory leaves out, and never invents facts that are not in the source.
dbcve analysis · moderate confidenceThe Paid Memberships Pro Payfast Gateway Add On plugin logs sensitive information to log files. Given this is a payment gateway plugin, payment transaction data, authentication credentials, or other sensitive payment-related information may be written to accessible log files, potentially exposing this data to unauthorized parties.
Verify against the referenced sources before acting — the references below are authoritative for this CVE, this summary is not.
CVSS breakdown How the score is builtThe industry scoring standard. It rates how the flaw is reached, what it takes to exploit, and what an attacker gains — the score is derived from those, not the other way round.
From the vector- Attack vector
- Network
- Complexity
- Low
- Privileges
- None
- User interaction
- None
- Scope
- Unchanged
- Confidentiality
- Low
- Integrity
- None
- Availability
- None
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
Am I affected? How to checkSteps we derive from the advisory and the affected-version data, so you can decide whether this CVE reaches your setup. They are a guide, not a scan — your own configuration is the authority.
dbcve checksWork through these to decide whether this CVE applies to you.
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Identify if Payfast Gateway Add On is installedCheck your WordPress installation's plugin directory for 'pmpro-payfast' or 'paid-memberships-pro-payfast-gateway' folder. You can also look in wp-content/plugins/ for the plugin directory.Affected if The plugin directory exists in your WordPress installation
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Determine installed plugin versionNavigate to WordPress Admin > Plugins and look for the Paid Memberships Pro Payfast Gateway Add On entry, or check the main plugin file header for the 'Version' comment.Affected if The version number is lower than the patched version (compare against the latest version on the WordPress plugin repository)
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Verify if debug logging is enabledCheck WordPress debug settings in wp-config.php (WP_DEBUG and WP_DEBUG_LOG constants), and check the Payfast Gateway Add On settings for any logging configuration options.Affected if WP_DEBUG_LOG is true, or any plugin-specific logging option is enabled
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Locate log filesCheck the default WordPress debug log location (wp-content/debug.log), the plugin's log directory (wp-content/plugins/pmpro-payfast/logs/ or similar), and any custom log paths configured.Affected if Log files exist in accessible web directories
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Inspect logs for sensitive payment dataOpen the located log files and search for patterns like card numbers, authentication credentials, transaction IDs, customer PII, or Payfast API credentials.Affected if Log files contain unencrypted payment transaction details, API keys, authentication tokens, or other sensitive payment-related information
Your environment is affected if the Payfast Gateway Add On plugin is installed, logging is enabled, and log files contain sensitive payment or authentication data accessible to unauthorized parties.
Generated from the published advisory. Verify against your own configuration.
Remediation Closing itWhat it takes to close this. Where a vendor fix exists we point at it; where none exists we say so plainly, and can build one. Effort estimates are scoped from the advisory, not from your codebase.
From vendor dataUpdate to the latest version of the Payfast Gateway Add On which should contain a fix to prevent sensitive data from being written to logs. Also review and purge any existing log files that may contain exposed sensitive information.
- Consultation2.0 h
- Implementation4.0 h
- Testing2.0 h
- Review / QA1.0 h
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References Go to the primary sourcePrimary sources — vendor advisories, patches and trackers. Where our summary and a reference disagree, the reference wins.
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ContributedPeer-ranked notes from engineers who’ve handled CVE-2024-30514 in production — separate from our analysis above.
The advisory tells you what broke. It rarely tells you what actually worked. If you’ve dealt with this one, that detail is what the next engineer is searching for.
- The version that genuinely resolved it — not the one the vendor claimed
- A config change or rule that shut the vector down
- A gotcha in the upgrade path that cost you an afternoon
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