CVE-2025-8878CWE-94
Paid Membership Plugin, Ecommerce, User Registration Form, Login Form, User Profile & Restrict Content – ProfilePress <= 4.16.4 - Unauthenticated Arbitrary Shortcode Execution
Medium · published August 16, 2025
What it is
The The Paid Membership Plugin, Ecommerce, User Registration Form, Login Form, User Profile & Restrict Content – ProfilePress plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to arbitrary shortcode execution in all versions up to, and including, 4.16.4. This is due to the software allowing users to execute an action that does not properly validate a value before running do_shortcode. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to execute arbitrary shortcodes.
The record
Technical detail
- CVSS v3.1
- 6.5 · MEDIUM
- Vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
- CVSS v4.0
- Not supplied
- EPSS
- 0.00440 · 37.2th percentile
- Weakness
- CWE-94 · Improper Control of Generation of Code ('Code Injection')
- Published
- 2025-08-16T11:11Z
EPSS history
Timeline
16 AUG 11:11Z
Paid Membership Plugin, Ecommerce, User Registration Form, Login Form, User Profile & Restrict Content – ProfilePress <= 4.16.4 - Unauthenticated Arbitrary Shortcode Execution
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