CVE-2026-8489

medium

Description

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.

References

https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/229a4e61-571c-44c6-9972-4dfc743afffe?source=cve

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/ultimate-member/tags/2.11.4/includes/core/um-filters-fields.php#L271

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/ultimate-member/tags/2.11.4/includes/core/um-actions-form.php#L628

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/ultimate-member/tags/2.11.4/includes/core/class-profile.php#L479

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/ultimate-member/tags/2.11.4/includes/core/class-form.php#L854

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/ultimate-member/tags/2.11.4/includes/core/class-fields.php#L4577

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/ultimate-member/tags/2.11.2/includes/core/um-filters-fields.php#L271

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/ultimate-member/tags/2.11.2/includes/core/um-actions-form.php#L628

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/ultimate-member/tags/2.11.2/includes/core/class-profile.php#L479

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/ultimate-member/tags/2.11.2/includes/core/class-form.php#L854

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/ultimate-member/tags/2.11.2/includes/core/class-fields.php#L4577

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2026-07-03

Updated: 2026-07-03

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 5.5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:N

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 6.4

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Severity: Medium