High severity8.1NVD Advisory· Published Oct 17, 2026
CVE-2026-92798
CVE-2026-92798
Description
The User Registration & Membership plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Arbitrary Shortcode Execution in versions up to, and including, 5.2.8 This is due to insufficient input sanitization in the 'referrer_url' branch of UR_Smart_Tags::process(), where the attacker-controlled HTTP_REFERER header is only passed through sanitize_text_field() — which does not strip WordPress shortcode delimiters — before being substituted into a Content Restriction message that is subsequently executed via apply_shortcodes()/do_shortcode(). This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to execute arbitrary registered shortcodes on any restricted page whose message uses the supported {{referrer_url}} smart tag.
Affected products
1- Range: <=5.2.8
Patches
Vulnerability mechanics
References
6- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/user-registration/tags/5.2.8/includes/class-ur-smart-tags.phpnvd
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/user-registration/tags/5.2.8/includes/class-ur-smart-tags.phpnvd
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/user-registration/tags/5.2.8/modules/content-restriction/class-urcr-frontend.phpnvd
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/user-registration/tags/5.2.8/modules/content-restriction/functions-urcr-core.phpnvd
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3741339/user-registration/trunk/includes/class-ur-smart-tags.phpnvd
- www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/ec317df9-c7ef-49a3-9818-903dfe4bdd03nvd
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