01 Record
CVE-2025-8878
Paid Membership Plugin, Ecommerce, User Registration Form, Login Form, User Profile & Restrict Content – ProfilePress <= 4.16.4 - Unauthenticated Arbitrary Shortcode Execution
MediumPUBLISHEDCNA: Wordfence
CNA base score6.5 CVSS v3.xCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
02 Description
Paid Membership Plugin, Ecommerce, User Registration Form, Login Form, User Profile & Restrict Content – ProfilePress <= 4.16.4 - Unauthenticated Arbitrary Shortcode Execution
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Assessed, none found. CISA's assessment recorded neither public exploit code nor evidence of exploitation when it was made.
- SSVC decision
- ExploitationnoneCISA recorded no public exploit code and no evidence of exploitation.
- AutomatableyesAn attacker can reliably automate reconnaissance through exploitation, so this scales.
- Technical ImpactpartialSuccessful exploitation gives limited control of the vulnerable component.
- EPSS probability
- 0.44% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 37.9% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- 6.5 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.
- NVD CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
- NVD analysis status
- Deferred. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-17.
- Red Hat severity
- No Red Hat rating. Red Hat rates the CVEs that affect its products.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2025-08-16 11:11Z1 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2026-04-08 17:09Z6 MO AGO
- Reserved
- 2025-08-11
- Assigning CNA
- Wordfence
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Medium (CVSS 6.5)
- CNA CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-94Improper Control of Generation of Code ('Code Injection')Base
- Data version
- 5.2
- Document digest
- 1773977fa4c731fe790096eeb22426d873d8e886d5546d5978679c228da337d2
05 Affected products
VendorProductVersionsPlatforms
06 References
- www.wordfence.comhttps://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/9309b8bf-f581-4a56-a1ed-3941ebb36127?source=cve
- plugins.trac.wordpress.orghttps://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-user-avatar/trunk/src/Classes/RegistrationAuth.php#L131
- plugins.trac.wordpress.orghttps://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-user-avatar/trunk/src/ShortcodeParser/Builder/FrontendProfileBuilder.php#L318
- plugins.trac.wordpress.orghttps://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-user-avatar/trunk/src/ShortcodeParser/Builder/FrontendProfileBuilder.php#L329
- plugins.trac.wordpress.orghttps://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-user-avatar/trunk/src/ShortcodeParser/Builder/FrontendProfileBuilder.php#L339
- plugins.trac.wordpress.orghttps://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-user-avatar/trunk/src/ShortcodeParser/Builder/FrontendProfileBuilder.php#L385
- plugins.trac.wordpress.orghttps://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3345295/