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() functio…
Medium CVSS 5.4
Summary
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 containin…
In-depth triage
No in-depth report has been generated yet (DR-003 v2 AI pipeline is under construction).
Sources
- NVD DATABASE
Original Links
- https://pastebin.com/raw/pCgrW6Pf
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-user-avatar/tags/4.17.5/src/Functions/GlobalFunctions.php#L1768
- 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/ShortcodeParser/FrontendProfileTag.php#L142
- 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/4.17.6/src/ShortcodeParser/FrontendProfileTag.php
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/83adfbff-f625-4474-81b9-961c496d59a0?source=cve
Timeline
- nvd_ingest NVD