The Paid Memberships Pro – Content Restriction, User Registration, & Paid Subscriptions plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Readonly User Field via [pmpro_member_profile_edit] Shortcode in all versions up to, and including, 3.8.1 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.
Paid Memberships Pro – Content Restriction, User Registration, & Paid Subscriptions <= 3.8.1 - Authenticated (Subscriber+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting
Problem type
Affected products
strangerstudios
<= 3.8.1 - AFFECTED
References
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/02e3f64c-1076-4247-9ee5-c1105edcfb39?source=cve
https://www.paidmembershipspro.com/category/release-notes/
GitHub Security Advisories
GHSA-29wc-fx5p-m6r7
The Paid Memberships Pro – Content Restriction, User Registration, & Paid Subscriptions plugin...
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-29wc-fx5p-m6r7The Paid Memberships Pro – Content Restriction, User Registration, & Paid Subscriptions plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Readonly User Field via [pmpro_member_profile_edit] Shortcode in all versions up to, and including, 3.8.1 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.
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-15016
https://www.paidmembershipspro.com/category/release-notes
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/02e3f64c-1076-4247-9ee5-c1105edcfb39?source=cve
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-29wc-fx5p-m6r7
JSON source
https://cveawg.mitre.org/api/cve/CVE-2026-15016Click to expand
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