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CVE-2024-2861: ProfilePress <= 4.15.8 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via ProfilePress User Panel Widget

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.4 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2024-05-23 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-79

Description

The ProfilePress plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the ProfilePress User Panel widget in all versions up to, and including, 4.15.8 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied attributes. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with contributor-level access and above, 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 4.15.9 — fixed in 4.15.9

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: properfraction Paid Membership Plugin, Ecommerce, User Registration Form, Login Form, User Profile & Restrict Content – 4.15.9. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3090831/wp-user-avatar
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/487731cd-da5a-45b6-8f39-4ae6420dd252?source=cve
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3090831/wp-user-avatar
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/487731cd-da5a-45b6-8f39-4ae6420dd252?source=cve

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