CVE-2026-8489 PUBLISHED

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

Assigner: Wordfence
Reserved: 13.05.2026 Published: 03.07.2026 Updated: 03.07.2026

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.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
CVSS Score: 6.4

Product Status

Vendor ultimatemember
Product Ultimate Member – User Profile, Registration, Login, Member Directory, Content Restriction & Membership Plugin
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 0 to 2.11.4 (incl.)

Credits

  • daroo finder

References

Problem Types

  • CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') CWE