ProfilePress <= 4.16.17 - Unauthenticated Privilege Escalation

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9.8
Improper Privilege Management
CVE CVE-2026-12497
CVSS 9.8 (Critical)
Publicly Published July 3, 2026
Last Updated July 30, 2026
Researcher Muni Nitish Kumar Yaddala

Description

The Paid Membership Plugin, Ecommerce, User Registration Form, Login Form, User Profile & Restrict Content – ProfilePress plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Privilege Escalation in all versions up to, and including, 4.16.17. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to register as higher privileged roles when the registration form has been misconfigured.

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Vulnerability Details for Paid Membership Plugin, Ecommerce, User Registration Form, Login Form, User Profile & Restrict Content – ProfilePress

Paid Membership Plugin, Ecommerce, User Registration Form, Login Form, User Profile & Restrict Content – ProfilePress

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug wp-user-avatar (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Remediation Update to version 4.16.18, or a newer patched version
Affected Version
  • <= 4.16.17
Patched Version
  • 4.16.18

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Researcher: Haitam Lazaar
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Researcher: Niv Kochan
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CVE-2026-4949
Apr 15, 2026
Researcher: Supakiad S. (m3ez)
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Researcher: Nabil Irawan
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7.1
CVE-2026-3445
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Researcher: Supakiad S. (m3ez)
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CVE-2026-3453
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Researcher: kai63001
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CVE-2025-13642
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Researcher: Nguyen Ngoc Quang Bach (maysbachs)
# Title CVE ID CVSS Researchers Date
1 Paid Membership Plugin, Ecommerce, User Registration Form, Login Form, User Profile & Restrict Content – ProfilePress < 4.17.1 - Unauthenticated Arbitrary Shortcode Execution CVE-2026-19848 7.3 Jakub Herman August 28, 2026
2 Paid Membership Plugin, Ecommerce, User Registration Form, Login Form, User Profile & Restrict Content <= 4.16.19 - Authenticated (Subscriber+) Arbitrary Shortcode Execution via First Name / Last Name Profile Field CVE-2026-18385 5.4 stealthcopter, Kishan Vyas August 15, 2026
3 Paid Membership Plugin, Ecommerce, User Registration Form, Login Form, User Profile & Restrict Content <= 4.16.18 - Authenticated (Author+) Limited Unsafe File Upload via upload_mimes Filter Expansion CVE-2026-13352 8.8 skyv3il, Chirita Catalin-Andrei (CC99IE) July 16, 2026
4 ProfilePress <= 4.16.16 - Insecure Direct Object Reference to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Subscription Cancellation CVE-2026-10820 4.3 Haitam Lazaar June 6, 2026
5 Paid Membership Plugin, Ecommerce, User Registration Form, Login Form, User Profile & Restrict Content – ProfilePress <= 4.16.13 - Authenticated (Subscriber+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting CVE-2026-41556 6.4 Niv Kochan April 23, 2026
6 ProfilePress <= 4.16.12 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Inactive Membership Plan Subscription CVE-2026-4949 4.3 Supakiad S. (m3ez) April 15, 2026
7 Paid Membership Plugin, Ecommerce, User Registration Form, Login Form, User Profile & Restrict Content – ProfilePress <= 4.16.11 - Unauthenticated Arbitrary Shortcode Execution via Checkout Billing Fields CVE-2026-3309 6.5 Nabil Irawan April 3, 2026
8 Paid Membership Plugin, Ecommerce, User Registration Form, Login Form, User Profile & Restrict Content – ProfilePress <= 4.16.11 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Membership Payment Bypass CVE-2026-3445 7.1 Supakiad S. (m3ez) April 3, 2026
9 ProfilePress <= 4.16.11 - Insecure Direct Object Reference to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Arbitrary Subscription Cancellation/Expiration CVE-2026-3453 8.1 kai63001 March 10, 2026
10 ProfilePress <= 4.16.7 - Authenticated (Subscriber+) Arbitrary Shortcode Execution CVE-2025-13642 5.4 Nguyen Ngoc Quang Bach (maysbachs) December 8, 2025
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