CVE-2025-8878 json
Paid Membership Plugin, Ecommerce, User Registration Form, Login Form, User Profile & Restrict Content – ProfilePress <= 4.16.4 - Unauthenticated Arbitrary Shortcode Execution
published last yr. modified 4mo ago also EUVD-2025-28807
- cvss
- 6.5
- version 3.1, CNA
- cisa kev
- Not listed
- not in CISA's catalog
- epss
- 0.5%
- EPSS 0.5% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 41%
- public exploits
- 0
- none known
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.
Patch / fix
- profilepress profilepress 4.16.5
- profilepress user_registration,_login_form,_user_profile_&_membership 4.16.5
- properfraction profilepress 4.16.5
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- Exploitation
- none
- Automatable
- yes
- Technical impact
- partial
- Assessed
- last yr.
Exploit prediction
0.48% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 41% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).
CVSS scores
| assigned by | version | score | vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| CNA | 3.1 | 6.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N |
Affected products
- properfraction Paid Membership Plugin, Ecommerce, User Registration Form, Login Form, User Profile & Restrict Content – ProfilePress
Classification
- Weakness
-
- CWE-94 Improper Control of Generation of Code
- Technology feeds
References
- wordfence.com /threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/9309b8bf-f581-4a56-a1ed-3941ebb36127?source=cve
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org /browser/wp-user-avatar/trunk/src/Classes/RegistrationAuth.php#L131
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org /browser/wp-user-avatar/trunk/src/ShortcodeParser/Builder/FrontendProfileBuilder.php#L318
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org /browser/wp-user-avatar/trunk/src/ShortcodeParser/Builder/FrontendProfileBuilder.php#L329
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org /browser/wp-user-avatar/trunk/src/ShortcodeParser/Builder/FrontendProfileBuilder.php#L339
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org /browser/wp-user-avatar/trunk/src/ShortcodeParser/Builder/FrontendProfileBuilder.php#L385
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org /changeset/3345295/
Sources
- CVE List CVE-2025-8878
- NVD CVE-2025-8878
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