CVE-2026-85658 Code injection in Paid Membership Plugin, Ecommerce, User Registration Form, Login Form, User Profile & Restrict Content – ProfilePress
Authenticated subscribers can execute arbitrary shortcodes via the biography field, potentially leading to code execution.
- 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-2026-85658?
CVE-2026-85658 is a high-severity code injection vulnerability in properfraction Paid Membership Plugin, Ecommerce, User Registration Form, Login Form, User Profile & Restrict Content – ProfilePress, published on 19 Sep 2026. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
The Paid Membership Plugin, Ecommerce, User Registration Form, Login Form, User Profile & Restrict Content – ProfilePress plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to arbitrary shortcode execution in all versions up to, and including, 4.17.2 This is due to the software allowing users to execute an action that does not properly validate a value before running do_shortcode. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, to execute arbitrary shortcodes.
Weakness: CWE-94
Which versions are affected by CVE-2026-85658?
How do I fix CVE-2026-85658?
No fix has been published for CVE-2026-85658 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Upgrade, and never evaluate templates, expressions or code built from user input. More about Code injection.
Is CVE-2026-85658 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-85658 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Sources
Also known as GHSA-jvc3-5jgr-chw6.