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GHSA-V6W4-V9MR-X4M3

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2022-06-14 00:00 – Updated: 2022-06-18 00:00

Details

The Ultimate Member plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the Biography field featured on individual user profile pages due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping that allows users to encode malicious web scripts with HTML encoding that is reflected back on the page. This affects versions up to, and including, 2.3.2. Please note this issue was partially fixed in version 2.3.2 then subsequently fully patched in version 2.3.3.

Severity

5.4 (Medium)


                  
                    CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

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CVE-2022-1208 (GCVE-0-2022-1208)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2022-06-13 12:43 – Updated: 2026-04-08 17:09

Title

Ultimate Member <= 2.3.2 - Stored Cross-Site Scripting

Summary

Severity

6.4 (Medium)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

CWE

CWE-79 - Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')

Assigner

Wordfence mitre root Scorecard

References

4 references

URL	Tags
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabil…
https://github.com/H4de5-7/vulnerabilities/blob/m…
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_…
https://www.wordfence.com/vulnerability-advisorie…

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
ultimatemember	Ultimate Member – User Profile, Registration, Login, Member Directory, Content Restriction & Membership Plugin	Affected: 0 , ≤ 2.3.2 (semver)

Credits

Ruijie Li

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GHSA-V6W4-V9MR-X4M3

CVE-2022-1208 (GCVE-0-2022-1208)

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