CVE-2025-8896 Cross-site scripting in User Profile Builder – Beautiful User Registration Forms, User Profiles & User Role Editor
Authenticated attackers can inject arbitrary scripts via GDPR preferences, executing them for other users when the specific module is enabled.
- 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-2025-8896?
CVE-2025-8896 is a medium-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in cozmoslabs User Profile Builder – Beautiful User Registration Forms, User Profiles & User Role Editor, published on 16 Aug 2025. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
The User Profile Builder – Beautiful User Registration Forms, User Profiles & User Role Editor plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'gdpr_communication_preferences[]' parameter in all versions up to, and including, 3.14.3 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 only exploitable when the GDPR Communication Preferences module is enabled and at least one GDPR Communication Preferences field has been added to the edit profile form.
Weakness: CWE-79
Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-8896?
How do I fix CVE-2025-8896?
No fix has been published for CVE-2025-8896 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-2025-8896 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-8896 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Sources
Also known as GHSA-xr23-2f93-v94h.