CVE-2026-96574 PUBLISHED

User Frontend <= 4.3.12 - Authenticated (Subscriber+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'wpuf_payment_method' Parameter

Assigner: Wordfence
Reserved: 23.09.2026 Published: 10.10.2026 Updated: 10.10.2026

The User Frontend – Membership, User Registration, User Profile, User Directory & Content Restriction with Frontend Post Submission plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'wpuf_payment_method' parameter in all versions up to, and including, 4.3.12 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. The bypass technique involves appending a valid gateway keyword such as 'bank' to the HTML payload, causing sanitize_text_field() to yield only the keyword for routing purposes while the full malicious raw value is stored and later rendered unescaped.

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 wedevs
Product User Frontend – Membership, User Registration, User Profile, User Directory & Content Restriction with Frontend Post Submission
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 0 to 4.3.12 (incl.)

Credits

  • Tarcísio Luchesi De Almeida Silva (Poystick) finder

References

Problem Types

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