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CVE-2024-1408: ProfilePress <= 4.14.4 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via [edit-profile-text-box] shortcode

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.4 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2024-02-29 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-79

Description

The Paid Membership Plugin, Ecommerce, User Registration Form, Login Form, User Profile & Restrict Content – ProfilePress plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's edit-profile-text-box shortcode in all versions up to, and including, 4.14.4 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied attributes such as 'type'. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers with contributor-level and above permissions to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.

Affected products

• properfraction Paid Membership Plugin, Ecommerce, User Registration Form, Login Form, User Profile & Restrict Content – : before 4.15.0 — fixed in 4.15.0

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: properfraction Paid Membership Plugin, Ecommerce, User Registration Form, Login Form, User Profile & Restrict Content – 4.15.0. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://github.com/WordpressPluginDirectory/wp-user-avatar/blob/fde360946c86d67610d8f95a82752199ce25b39a/wp-user-avatar/sr/ShortcodeParser/Builder/FieldsShortcodeCallback.php#L524
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&new=3037126%40wp-user-avatar%2Ftrunk&old=3030229%40wp-user-avatar%2Ftrunk&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/6e50081f-6658-4cc7-bf0a-d04464820926?source=cve
• https://github.com/WordpressPluginDirectory/wp-user-avatar/blob/fde360946c86d67610d8f95a82752199ce25b39a/wp-user-avatar/sr/ShortcodeParser/Builder/FieldsShortcodeCallback.php#L524
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&new=3037126%40wp-user-avatar%2Ftrunk&old=3030229%40wp-user-avatar%2Ftrunk&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/6e50081f-6658-4cc7-bf0a-d04464820926?source=cve

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