CVE-2026-85658
Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
CWE-94
Code Injection
Publication date:
19/09/2026
Last modified:
21/09/2026
Description
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, 4.17.2 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 authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, to execute arbitrary shortcodes.
Impact
Base Score 3.x
8.10
Severity 3.x
HIGH
References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-user-avatar/tags/4.17.2/src/Classes/EditUserProfile.php#L337
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-user-avatar/tags/4.17.2/src/Functions/GlobalFunctions.php#L1715
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-user-avatar/tags/4.17.2/src/ShortcodeParser/Builder/FrontendProfileBuilder.php#L339
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-user-avatar/tags/4.17.2/src/ShortcodeParser/FrontendProfileTag.php#L133
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-user-avatar/tags/4.17.2/src/Themes/DragDrop/ProfileFieldListing.php#L146
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3682604/wp-user-avatar/trunk/src/ShortcodeParser/Builder/FrontendProfileBuilder.php
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?reponame=&new=3682619%40wp-user-avatar%2Ftags%2F4.17.3&old=3666803%40wp-user-avatar%2Ftags%2F4.17.2
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/b8486d1d-8a76-446e-867b-8db32499ebf8?source=cve


