🔐 CVE Alert

CVE-2026-8489

MEDIUM 6.4

Ultimate Member <= 2.11.4 - Authenticated (Subscriber+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Non-HTML Custom Textarea Profile Field

CVSS Score
6.4
EPSS Score
0.0%
EPSS Percentile
0th

The Ultimate Member – User Profile, Registration, Login, Member Directory, Content Restriction & Membership Plugin plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'about_me' parameter in all versions up to, and including, 2.11.4 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.

CWE CWE-79
Vendor ultimatemember
Product ultimate member – user profile, registration, login, member directory, content restriction & membership plugin
Published Jul 3, 2026
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CVSS v3 Breakdown

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
Attack Vector
Attack Complexity
Privileges Required
User Interaction
Scope
Confidentiality
Integrity
Availability

Affected Versions

ultimatemember / Ultimate Member – User Profile, Registration, Login, Member Directory, Content Restriction & Membership Plugin
0 ≤ 2.11.4

References

NVD ↗ CVE.org ↗ EPSS Data ↗
wordfence.com: https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/229a4e61-571c-44c6-9972-4dfc743afffe?source=cve plugins.trac.wordpress.org: https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/ultimate-member/tags/2.11.4/includes/core/um-filters-fields.php#L271 plugins.trac.wordpress.org: https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/ultimate-member/tags/2.11.4/includes/core/class-profile.php#L479 plugins.trac.wordpress.org: https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/ultimate-member/tags/2.11.4/includes/core/class-fields.php#L4577 plugins.trac.wordpress.org: https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/ultimate-member/tags/2.11.4/includes/core/class-form.php#L854 plugins.trac.wordpress.org: https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/ultimate-member/tags/2.11.4/includes/core/um-actions-form.php#L628 plugins.trac.wordpress.org: https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/ultimate-member/tags/2.11.2/includes/core/um-filters-fields.php#L271 plugins.trac.wordpress.org: https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/ultimate-member/tags/2.11.2/includes/core/class-profile.php#L479 plugins.trac.wordpress.org: https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/ultimate-member/tags/2.11.2/includes/core/class-fields.php#L4577 plugins.trac.wordpress.org: https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/ultimate-member/tags/2.11.2/includes/core/class-form.php#L854 plugins.trac.wordpress.org: https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/ultimate-member/tags/2.11.2/includes/core/um-actions-form.php#L628

Credits

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