# CVE-2026-104003: Paid Membership Plugin, Ecommerce, User Registration Form, Login Form, User Profile & Restrict Content \<= 4.17.5 - Authenticated (Subscriber+) Arbitrary Shortcode Execution via Comment Content Rendered on ProfilePress User Profile 'Comments' Tab

- Severity: CVSS 5.4 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2026-10-16 · Updated: 2026-10-16

## Affected

- properfraction Paid Membership Plugin, Ecommerce, User Registration Form, Login Form, User Profile & Restrict Content – ProfilePress: through 4.17.5

## Description

The WP User Avatar / ProfilePress plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Arbitrary Shortcode Execution in versions up to, and including, 4.17.5. This is due to the get_user_profile_structure() function assembling the front-end profile buffer — which includes raw comment excerpts inlined by author_comment_query() — and passing the entire buffer to do_shortcode() after only a narrow neutralization pass (ppress_neutralize_buffer_shortcodes) that blocks pp-custom-html and bracket fragments containing HTML delimiters but leaves any other well-formed shortcode intact. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to inject arbitrary shortcodes (from any active plugin or theme) with attacker-chosen attributes by posting a comment whose body contains the shortcode markup; the shortcode is then executed server-side when any visitor loads the target's front-end profile Comments tab, letting the attacker reach capability-gated or data-returning shortcodes and inject raw HTML markup into a publicly viewable page.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on properfraction Paid Membership Plugin, Ecommerce, User Registration Form, Login Form, User Profile & Restrict Content – ProfilePress, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
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## References

- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/83adfbff-f625-4474-81b9-961c496d59a0?source=cve
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-user-avatar/tags/4.17.5/src/ShortcodeParser/FrontendProfileTag.php#L142
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-user-avatar/tags/4.17.5/src/ShortcodeParser/Builder/FrontendProfileBuilder.php#L169
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-user-avatar/tags/4.17.5/src/Themes/DragDrop/UserProfile/DefaultTemplate.php#L379
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-user-avatar/tags/4.17.5/src/Functions/GlobalFunctions.php#L1768
- https://pastebin.com/raw/pCgrW6Pf
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-user-avatar/tags/4.17.6/src/ShortcodeParser/FrontendProfileTag.php

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