CVE-2026-18547
Vulnérabilité moyenne dans Ultimate Member – User Profile, Registration, Login, Member Directory, Content Restriction & Membership Plugin (ultimatemember)
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 Textarea Profile Field with HTML Support (DOM Gadget via id Attribute) in all versions up to, and including, 2.12.1 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. This is possible because the wp_kses 'templates' allowlist permits the id attribute on div elements but does not neutralize unescaped quotes within its value; when pickadate.js concatenates the stored id value into an HTML string via jQuery .html() on profile page load, the smuggled onfocus and autofocus attribute syntax breaks out of attribute context and executes as JavaScript.
Gravité et risque d'exploitation
CVE-2026-18547 obtient un score CVSS de 6.4/10, soit une gravité moyenne. Selon le modèle EPSS, la probabilité qu'elle soit exploitée dans les 30 prochains jours est de 0.28 %, ce qui la place devant 19.5 % des CVE référencées.
Que faire ?
- Vérifiez si Ultimate Member – User Profile, Registration, Login, Member Directory, Content Restriction & Membership Plugin (versions <=2.12.1, 0) est présent sur votre parc.
- Appliquez le correctif ou la version corrigée indiqués dans les références de l'éditeur.
- À défaut de correctif, limitez l'exposition (filtrage réseau, désactivation du composant).
- Automatisez la détection : les agents CVE Heimdall (gratuits, open source) corrèlent l'inventaire de vos serveurs avec la base CVE.
Références
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/a7961bcc-eae7-40e1-8838-9755c7655500?source=cve
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/ultimate-member/tags/2.12.1/includes/core/class-form.php#L853
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/ultimate-member/tags/2.12.1/includes/class-functions.php#L580
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/ultimate-member/tags/2.12.1/assets/js/common.js#L51
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/ultimate-member/tags/2.11.4/includes/core/class-form.php#L853
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/ultimate-member/tags/2.11.4/includes/class-functions.php#L580
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/ultimate-member/tags/2.11.4/assets/js/common.js#L51
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?reponame=&old=3663931%40ultimate-member&new=3663931%40ultimate-member
