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.
History

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Metrics ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'total'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}


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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.
Title Paid Membership Plugin, Ecommerce, User Registration Form, Login Form, User Profile & Restrict Content <= 4.17.2 - Authenticated (Subscriber+) Arbitrary Shortcode Execution via 'eup_bio' Biography Field (Entity-Encoded Shortcode Bracket)
Weaknesses CWE-94
References
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 8.1, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N'}


cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: Wordfence

Published: 2026-09-19T07:43:19.179Z

Updated: 2026-09-19T14:01:21.938Z

Reserved: 2026-09-04T13:29:07.249Z

Link: CVE-2026-85658

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2026-09-19T13:51:30.442Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2026-09-19T08:16:54.770

Modified: 2026-09-21T13:33:33.387

Link: CVE-2026-85658

cve-icon Redhat

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