Live › vulnerability › CVE-2026-104003
Go to dashboardWP User Avatar (ProfilePress) up to and including 4.17.5 passes raw user comment content to do_shortcode(), so a logged-in subscriber can post a comment containing a shortcode. The shortcode then runs on the server whenever a visitor opens the target's profile Comments tab, which can reach shortcodes from other plugins or themes and inject raw HTML into a public page.
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First seen by InfraStack 2026-10-23 21:57 UTC. All times on this page are UTC.
Sites running WP User Avatar / ProfilePress 4.17.5 or earlier where subscribers can post comments that appear on user profile Comments tabs. Sites without this plugin or with a newer version can skip it. Whether profile comments are enabled on a given site is unknown from the sources.
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wp plugin get wp-user-avatar --field=version4.17.5; the fixed version number is unknown from the sourcesEach row is the first time that source carried this signal. The analyst’s rows are its own findings.
The WP User Avatar / ProfilePress plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Arbitrary Shortcode Execution in versions up to, and including, 4.17.5. This is due to the get_user_profile_structure() function assembling the front-end profile buffer — which includes raw comment excerpts inlined by author_comment_query() — and passing the entire buffer to do_shortcode() after only a narrow neutralization pass (ppress_neutralize_buffer_shortcodes) that blocks pp-custom-html and bracket fragments containing HTML delimiters but leaves any other well-formed shortcode intact. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to inject arbitrary shortcodes (from any active plugin or theme) with attacker-chosen attributes by posting a comment whose body contains the shortcode markup; the shortcode is then executed server-side when any visitor loads the target's front-end profile Comments tab, letting the attacker reach capability-gated or data-returning shortcodes and inject raw HTML markup into a publicly viewable page.
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