Medium severity6.5NVD Advisory· Published Aug 16, 2025· Updated Apr 15, 2026
CVE-2025-8878
CVE-2025-8878
Description
The The Paid Membership Plugin, Ecommerce, User Registration Form, Login Form, User Profile & Restrict Content – ProfilePress plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to arbitrary shortcode execution in all versions up to, and including, 4.16.4. This is due to the software allowing users to execute an action that does not properly validate a value before running do_shortcode. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to execute arbitrary shortcodes.
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Affected products
2- Range: <=4.16.4
Patches
Vulnerability mechanics
References
7- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-user-avatar/trunk/src/Classes/RegistrationAuth.phpnvd
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-user-avatar/trunk/src/ShortcodeParser/Builder/FrontendProfileBuilder.phpnvd
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-user-avatar/trunk/src/ShortcodeParser/Builder/FrontendProfileBuilder.phpnvd
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-user-avatar/trunk/src/ShortcodeParser/Builder/FrontendProfileBuilder.phpnvd
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-user-avatar/trunk/src/ShortcodeParser/Builder/FrontendProfileBuilder.phpnvd
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3345295/nvd
- www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/9309b8bf-f581-4a56-a1ed-3941ebb36127nvd
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