CVE-2025-8878 (GCVE-0-2025-8878)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-08-16 11:11 – Updated: 2025-08-18 18:04
VLAI?
Title
Paid Membership Plugin, Ecommerce, User Registration Form, Login Form, User Profile & Restrict Content – ProfilePress <= 4.16.4 - Unauthenticated Arbitrary Shortcode Execution
Summary
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.
Severity ?
6.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
CWE
  • CWE-94 - Improper Control of Generation of Code ('Code Injection')
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References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
properfraction Paid Membership Plugin, Ecommerce, User Registration Form, Login Form, User Profile & Restrict Content – ProfilePress Affected: * , ≤ 4.16.4 (semver)
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Credits
Matthew Rollings Kishan Vyas
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