{"id":68263,"date":"2025-08-16T18:31:31","date_gmt":"2025-08-16T15:01:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/cve-2025-8878-profilepress-wordpress-arbitrary-shortcode-execution-vulnerability\/"},"modified":"2025-08-16T18:31:31","modified_gmt":"2025-08-16T15:01:31","slug":"cve-2025-8878-profilepress-wordpress-arbitrary-shortcode-execution-vulnerability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/cve-2025-8878-profilepress-wordpress-arbitrary-shortcode-execution-vulnerability\/","title":{"rendered":"CVE-2025-8878 &#8211; ProfilePress WordPress Arbitrary Shortcode Execution Vulnerability"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>CVE ID : <\/strong>CVE-2025-8878<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<strong>Published : <\/strong> Aug. 16, 2025, 12:15 p.m. | 1\u00a0hour, 46\u00a0minutes ago<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<strong>Description : <\/strong>The The Paid Membership Plugin, Ecommerce, User Registration Form, Login Form, User Profile &amp; Restrict Content \u2013 ProfilePress plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to arbitrary shortcode execution in all versions up to, and including, 4.16.4. 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 unauthenticated attackers to execute arbitrary shortcodes.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<strong>Severity:<\/strong> 6.5 | MEDIUM<br \/>\n<br \/>\nVisit the link for more details, such as CVSS details, affected products, timeline, and more&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CVE ID : CVE-2025-8878 Published : Aug. 16, 2025, 12:15 p.m. | 1\u00a0hour, 46\u00a0minutes ago Description : The The Paid Membership Plugin, Ecommerce, User Registration Form, Login Form, User Profile &amp; Restrict Content \u2013 ProfilePress plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to arbitrary shortcode execution in all versions up to, and including, 4.16.4. This is due &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vulnerability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68263\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}