CVE-2025-8878
Paid Membership Plugin, Ecommerce, User Registration Form, Login Form, User Profile & Restrict Content – ProfilePress <= 4.16.4 - Unauthenticated Arbitrary Shortcode Execution
- State
- Published
- Severity
- 6.5 Medium
- Published
- Aug 16, 2025
- Updated
- Apr 8, 2026
- Reserved
- Aug 11, 2025
Description
The The Paid Membership Plugin, Ecommerce, User Registration Form, Login Form, User Profile & Restrict Content – ProfilePress plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to arbitrary shortcode execution in all versions up to, and including, 4.16.4. This is due to the software allowing users to execute an action that does not properly validate a value before running do_shortcode. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to execute arbitrary shortcodes.
Scores
| CVSS | Score | Vector | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.1 | 6.5 Medium | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N | Wordfence |
Weaknesses
- CWE-94 Improper Control of Generation of Code ('Code Injection')
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
Paid Membership Plugin, Ecommerce, User Registration Form, Login Form, User Profile & Restrict Content – ProfilePressproperfraction |
|
References
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/9309b8bf-f581-4a56-a1ed-3941ebb36127?source=cve
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-user-avatar/trunk/src/Classes/RegistrationAuth.php#L131
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-user-avatar/trunk/src/ShortcodeParser/Builder/FrontendProfileBuilder.php#L318
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-user-avatar/trunk/src/ShortcodeParser/Builder/FrontendProfileBuilder.php#L329
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-user-avatar/trunk/src/ShortcodeParser/Builder/FrontendProfileBuilder.php#L339
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-user-avatar/trunk/src/ShortcodeParser/Builder/FrontendProfileBuilder.php#L385
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3345295/
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