High severity8.1NVD Advisory· Published Sep 19, 2026· Updated Sep 21, 2026
CVE-2026-85658
CVE-2026-85658
Description
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, 4.17.2 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 authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, to execute arbitrary shortcodes.
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Affected products
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References
8- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-user-avatar/tags/4.17.2/src/Classes/EditUserProfile.phpnvd
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-user-avatar/tags/4.17.2/src/Functions/GlobalFunctions.phpnvd
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-user-avatar/tags/4.17.2/src/ShortcodeParser/Builder/FrontendProfileBuilder.phpnvd
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-user-avatar/tags/4.17.2/src/ShortcodeParser/FrontendProfileTag.phpnvd
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-user-avatar/tags/4.17.2/src/Themes/DragDrop/ProfileFieldListing.phpnvd
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3682604/wp-user-avatar/trunk/src/ShortcodeParser/Builder/FrontendProfileBuilder.phpnvd
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changesetnvd
- www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/b8486d1d-8a76-446e-867b-8db32499ebf8nvd
News mentions
1- Wordfence Intelligence Weekly WordPress Vulnerability Report (September 14, 2026 to September 20, 2026)Wordfence Blog · Sep 24, 2026