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.
History

Fri, 03 Jul 2026 06:45:00 +0000

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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.
Title Ultimate Member <= 2.11.4 - Authenticated (Subscriber+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Non-HTML Custom Textarea Profile Field
Weaknesses CWE-79
References
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 6.4, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N'}


cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: Wordfence

Published:

Updated: 2026-07-03T04:30:16.942Z

Reserved: 2026-05-13T14:58:02.236Z

Link: CVE-2026-8489

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cve-icon OpenCVE Enrichment

Updated: 2026-07-03T06:30:08Z