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CVE-2022-1208: Ultimate Member <= 2.3.2 - Stored Cross-Site Scripting

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.4 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2022-06-13 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-79

Description

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 only partially fixed in version 2.3.2.

Affected products

• ultimatemember Ultimate Member – User Profile, Registration, Login, Member Directory, Content Restriction & Membership P: through 2.3.2

References

• https://github.com/H4de5-7/vulnerabilities/blob/main/Ultimate%20Member%20%3C%3D%202.3.1%20-%20Stored%20Cross-Site%20Scripting.md
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=2735896%40ultimate-member&new=2735896%40ultimate-member&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/93cf6dce-892e-4106-bb37-b7952e5ea5a1?source=cve
• https://www.wordfence.com/vulnerability-advisories/#CVE-2022-1208
• https://github.com/H4de5-7/vulnerabilities/blob/main/Ultimate%20Member%20%3C%3D%202.3.1%20-%20Stored%20Cross-Site%20Scripting.md
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=2735896%40ultimate-member&new=2735896%40ultimate-member&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/93cf6dce-892e-4106-bb37-b7952e5ea5a1?source=cve
• https://www.wordfence.com/vulnerability-advisories/#CVE-2022-1208

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