CVE-2025-8878 (GCVE-0-2025-8878)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-08-16 11:11
Modified
2026-04-08 17:09
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VLAI Severity ?
EPSS score ?
CWE
- CWE-94 - Improper Control of Generation of Code ('Code Injection')
Summary
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.
References
Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| properfraction | Paid Membership Plugin, Ecommerce, User Registration Form, Login Form, User Profile & Restrict Content – ProfilePress |
Version: 0 ≤ 4.16.4 |
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Sightings
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Nomenclature
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