The User Frontend – Membership, User Registration, User Profile, User Directory & Content Restriction with Frontend Post Submission plugin for…
The User Frontend – Membership, User Registration, User Profile, User Directory & Content Restriction with Frontend Post Submission plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Privilege Escalation in all versions up to, and including, 4.3.13 via the `post_content` parameter of the `submit_post()` function. The vulnerability exists because the protected-shortcode blocklist guard inspects the `sanitize_textarea_field()` copy of the submitted `post_content`, while the copy actually persisted to the database is processed through `wp_kses()`, whose `wp_kses_no_null()` step strips C0 control bytes — allowing an attacker to inject a single `\x01` byte inside the `[wpuf-registration]` tag name to defeat t
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- Vendor
- Wedevs
- Product
- User Frontend – Membership, User Registration, User Profile, User Directory & Content Restriction with Frontend Post Submission
- CVSS v3.1
- 8.8 AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Weakness
- CWE-269
- Exposure class
- Web platform
- NVD status
- Received
Why it ranks 21 (Routine)
- CVSS v3.1 8.8 high
- Product class: web platform
- Recency: items published within 24 hours gain 15, within 72 hours 6, within 7 days 2.
Links
- NIST National Vulnerability Database (CVE API 2.0) (nvd.nist.gov)
- CVE-2026-120070 on this site · NVD · CVE.org · Vulnpedia
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