CVE-2026-96574 User Frontend <= 4.3.12 - Authenticated (Subscriber+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'wpuf_payment_method' Parameter

Q: What is CVE-2026-96574?

CVE-2026-96574 is a medium-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in wedevs User Frontend – Membership, User Registration, User Profile, User Directory & Content Restriction with Frontend Post Submission, published on 10 Oct 2026. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

Q: Is CVE-2026-96574 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-96574 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Q: How do I fix CVE-2026-96574?

No fix has been published for CVE-2026-96574 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Medium 6.4 Published 10 Oct 2026 Updated 11 Oct 2026

Authenticated attackers can inject arbitrary scripts via the payment method parameter, leading to stored XSS execution for other users.

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-2026-96574?

CVE-2026-96574 is a medium-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in wedevs User Frontend – Membership, User Registration, User Profile, User Directory & Content Restriction with Frontend Post Submission, published on 10 Oct 2026. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

The User Frontend – Membership, User Registration, User Profile, User Directory & Content Restriction with Frontend Post Submission plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'wpuf_payment_method' parameter in all versions up to, and including, 4.3.12 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. The bypass technique involves appending a valid gateway keyword such as 'bank' to the HTML payload, causing sanitize_text_field() to yield only the keyword for routing purposes while the full malicious raw value is stored and later rendered unescaped.

Weakness: CWE-79

Which versions are affected by CVE-2026-96574?

How do I fix CVE-2026-96574?

No fix has been published for CVE-2026-96574 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-2026-96574 being exploited?