Paid Membership Plugin, Ecommerce, User Registration Form, Login Form, User Profile & Restrict Content – ProfilePress <= 4.16.4 - Unauthenticated Arbitrary Shortcode Execution_CVE-2025-8878

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    "description": "The The Paid Membership Plugin, Ecommerce, User Registration Form, Login Form, User Profile & Restrict Content \u2013 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.",
    "published": "2025-08-16T11:11:24.022Z",
    "modified": "2025-08-16T11:11:24.022Z",
    "type": "cve",
    "title": "Paid Membership Plugin, Ecommerce, User Registration Form, Login Form, User Profile & Restrict Content  \u2013 ProfilePress <= 4.16.4 - Unauthenticated Arbitrary Shortcode Execution",
    "source": "Wordfence",
    "references": "https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/9309b8bf-f581-4a56-a1ed-3941ebb36127?source=cve\nhttps://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-user-avatar/trunk/src/Classes/RegistrationAuth.php#L131\nhttps://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-user-avatar/trunk/src/ShortcodeParser/Builder/FrontendProfileBuilder.php#L318\nhttps://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-user-avatar/trunk/src/ShortcodeParser/Builder/FrontendProfileBuilder.php#L329\nhttps://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-user-avatar/trunk/src/ShortcodeParser/Builder/FrontendProfileBuilder.php#L339\nhttps://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-user-avatar/trunk/src/ShortcodeParser/Builder/FrontendProfileBuilder.php#L385\nhttps://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3345295/",
    "id": "CVE-2025-8878",
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    "sourceData": "properfraction Paid Membership Plugin, Ecommerce, User Registration Form, Login Form, User Profile & Restrict Content \u2013 ProfilePress *",
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        "version": "3.1"
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    "product": "Paid Membership Plugin, Ecommerce, User Registration Form, Login Form, User Profile & Restrict Content \u2013 ProfilePress",
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