WordPress Plugin Vulnerabilities

Ultimate Member < 2.12.0 - Authenticated (Subscriber+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Non-HTML Custom Textarea Profile Field

Description

The Ultimate Member – User Profile, Registration, Login, Member Directory, Content Restriction & Membership Plugin plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'about_me' parameter in all versions up to, and including, 2.11.4 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.

Affects Plugins

Fixed in 2.12.0

References

Classification

Type
XSS
CWE

Miscellaneous

Original Researcher
daroo
Verified
No

Timeline

Publicly Published
2026-07-02 (about 25 days ago)
Added
2026-07-02 (about 25 days ago)
Last Updated
2026-07-03 (about 25 days ago)

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