The Paid Memberships Pro – Content Restriction, User Registration, & Paid Subscriptions plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Readonly User Field via [pmpro_member_profile_edit] Shortcode in all versions up to, and including, 3.8.1 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.
Advisories

No advisories yet.

Fixes

Solution

No solution given by the vendor.


Workaround

No workaround given by the vendor.

History

Tue, 28 Jul 2026 18:15:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
First Time appeared Strangerstudios
Strangerstudios paid Memberships Pro – Content Restriction, User Registration, & Paid Subscriptions
Wordpress
Wordpress wordpress
Vendors & Products Strangerstudios
Strangerstudios paid Memberships Pro – Content Restriction, User Registration, & Paid Subscriptions
Wordpress
Wordpress wordpress

Tue, 28 Jul 2026 16:15:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
Description The Paid Memberships Pro – Content Restriction, User Registration, & Paid Subscriptions plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Readonly User Field via [pmpro_member_profile_edit] Shortcode in all versions up to, and including, 3.8.1 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.
Title Paid Memberships Pro – Content Restriction, User Registration, & Paid Subscriptions <= 3.8.1 - Authenticated (Subscriber+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting
Weaknesses CWE-79
References
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 6.4, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N'}

ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}


Projects

Sign in to view the affected projects.

cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: Wordfence

Published:

Updated: 2026-07-28T13:37:29.646Z

Reserved: 2026-07-07T22:56:49.669Z

Link: CVE-2026-15016

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2026-07-28T13:37:23.797Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2026-07-28T13:17:34.150

Modified: 2026-07-28T16:07:15.840

Link: CVE-2026-15016

cve-icon Redhat

No data.

cve-icon OpenCVE Enrichment

Updated: 2026-08-03T15:15:04Z

Weaknesses