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CVE-2021-24955: ProfilePress < 3.2.3 - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.1 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2021-12-13 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-79

Description

The User Registration, Login Form, User Profile & Membership WordPress plugin before 3.2.3 does not escape the data parameter of the pp_get_forms_by_builder_type AJAX action before outputting it back in an attribute, leading to a Reflected Cross-Site Scripting issue

Affected products

• User Registration, Login Form, User Profile & Membership – ProfilePress (Formerly WP User Avatar): before 3.2.3 — fixed in 3.2.3

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: User Registration, Login Form, User Profile & Membership – ProfilePress (Formerly WP User Avatar) 3.2.3. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/2626573/
• https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/e8005d4d-41c3-451d-b85a-2626decaa080
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/2626573/
• https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/e8005d4d-41c3-451d-b85a-2626decaa080

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