CVE-2022-1208 Ultimate Member <= 2.3.2 - Stored Cross-Site Scripting
Attackers can inject malicious scripts into user profiles via the Biography field, potentially compromising other users' sessions.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2022-1208?
CVE-2022-1208 is a medium-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in ultimatemember Ultimate Member – User Profile, Registration, Login, Member Directory, Content Restriction & Membership Plugin, published on 13 Jun 2022. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
The Ultimate Member plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the Biography field featured on individual user profile pages due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping that allows users to encode malicious web scripts with HTML encoding that is reflected back on the page. This affects versions up to, and including, 2.3.2. Please note this issue was only partially fixed in version 2.3.2.
Weakness: CWE-79
Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-1208?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Ultimatemember Ultimate Member.
How do I fix CVE-2022-1208?
No fix has been published for CVE-2022-1208 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Escape output for the context it lands in and set a strict Content Security Policy. Upgrading the affected component is the real fix. More about Cross-site scripting.
Is CVE-2022-1208 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-1208 in the wild and no public exploit code.
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Sources
Also known as GHSA-v6w4-v9mr-x4m3.