CVE-2022-1208 (GCVE-0-2022-1208)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2022-06-13 12:43 – Updated: 2026-04-08 17:09
VLAI?
Title
Ultimate Member <= 2.3.2 - Stored Cross-Site Scripting
Summary
The Ultimate Member plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the Biography field featured on individual user profile pages due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping that allows users to encode malicious web scripts with HTML encoding that is reflected back on the page. This affects versions up to, and including, 2.3.2. Please note this issue was only partially fixed in version 2.3.2.
Severity ?
6.4 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
CWE
  • CWE-79 - Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
ultimatemember Ultimate Member – User Profile, Registration, Login, Member Directory, Content Restriction & Membership Plugin Affected: 0 , ≤ 2.3.2 (semver)
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Credits
Ruijie Li
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