Vulnerability · Published Oct 3, 2026 · Assigned by Wordfence
CVE-2026-92536Paid Membership Plugin, Ecommerce, User Registration Form, Login Form, User Profile & Restrict Content <= 4.17.4 - Authenticated (Subscriber+) Sensitive Information Exposure via Shortcode Injection via Nickname and Biographical Info Profile Fields
High 8.8
In plain English
A high-severity code injection in Paid Membership Plugin, Ecommerce, User Registration Form, Login Form, User Profile & Restrict Content – ProfilePress from properfraction. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.6% (higher than 51% of all known vulnerabilities).
Official description
The Paid Membership Plugin, Ecommerce, User Registration Form, Login Form, User Profile & Restrict Content – ProfilePress plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Sensitive Information Exposure in all versions up to, and including, 4.17.4 via the get_user_profile_structure. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, to extract other users' email addresses, login names, and registration dates via the Member Directory's per-row user rebinding when attacker-controlled base64 payloads in the [pp-custom-html] shortcode invoke [profile-email], [profile-username], and [profile-date-registered]. When the WordPress users_can_register option is enabled, unauthenticated attackers can also exploit this vulnerability by supplying the split shortcode fragments through the plugin's own registration handler, which processes the reg_nickname and reg_bio fields without a nonce requirement.
Affected products (as reported)
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
| properfraction | Paid Membership Plugin, Ecommerce, User Registration Form, Login Form, User Profile & Restrict Content – ProfilePress | 0 – through 4.17.4 |
Weakness: CWE-94 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
References
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/1340aeb3-12a0-4965-95db-45d753935812?source=cve
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-user-avatar/tags/4.17.4/src/ShortcodeParser/FrontendProfileTag.php#L140
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-user-avatar/tags/4.17.4/src/ShortcodeParser/MemberDirectoryTag.php#L237
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-user-avatar/tags/4.17.4/src/ShortcodeParser/Builder/GlobalShortcodes.php#L165
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-user-avatar/tags/4.17.4/src/Themes/DragDrop/ProfileFieldListing.php#L184
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-user-avatar/tags/4.17.4/src/Themes/DragDrop/MemberDirectoryListing.php#L145
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-user-avatar/tags/4.17.4/src/Functions/GlobalFunctions.php#L1715
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-user-avatar/tags/4.17.4/src/Classes/RegistrationAuth.php#L131
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-user-avatar/tags/4.17.4/src/Classes/EditUserProfile.php#L342