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CVE-2022-1208

The Ultimate Member plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the Biography field featured on individual user profile pages due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping that allows users to encode malicious web scripts with HTML encoding that is reflected back on the page. This affects versions up to, and including, 2.3.2. Please note this issue was only partially fixed in version 2.3.2.

Security Impact Summary

This vulnerability carries a MEDIUM severity rating with a CVSS v3.1 score of 6.4, indicating it can be exploited remotely over the network with relatively low complexity without requiring user interaction requiring only low-level privileges . The vulnerability impacts limited data confidentiality, limited integrity, for affected systems. Impacting 1 product from ultimatemember organizations running these solutions should prioritize assessment and patching.

Historical Context

Reported in 2022, this vulnerability emerged during an era marked by increased sophistication in supply chain attacks, cloud infrastructure vulnerabilities, and software-as-a-service (SaaS) security challenges. Security practices during this period emphasized zero-trust architectures, container security, and API protection.

Published

2022-06-13T13:15:10.697

Last Modified

2026-04-08T18:17:22.323

Status

Modified

Source

[email protected]

Severity

CVSSv3.1: 6.4 (MEDIUM)

CVSSv2 Vector

AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N

Access Vector: NETWORK
Access Complexity: MEDIUM
Authentication: SINGLE
Confidentiality Impact: NONE
Integrity Impact: PARTIAL
Availability Impact: NONE

Exploitability Score

6.8

Impact Score

2.9

Weaknesses

Type: Primary
CWE-79

Affected Vendors & Products

Type	Vendor	Product	Version/Range	Vulnerable?
Application	ultimatemember	ultimate_member	≤ 2.3.2	Yes

References

https://github.com/H4de5-7/vulnerabilities/blob/main/Ultimate%20Member%20%3C%3D%202.3.1%20-%20Stored%20Cross-Site%20Scripting.md Exploit, Third Party Advisory ([email protected])
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=2735896%40ultimate-member&new=2735896%40ultimate-member&sfp_email=&sfph_mail= Patch, Third Party Advisory ([email protected])
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/93cf6dce-892e-4106-bb37-b7952e5ea5a1?source=cve ([email protected])
https://www.wordfence.com/vulnerability-advisories/#CVE-2022-1208 Third Party Advisory ([email protected])
https://github.com/H4de5-7/vulnerabilities/blob/main/Ultimate%20Member%20%3C%3D%202.3.1%20-%20Stored%20Cross-Site%20Scripting.md Exploit, Third Party Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=2735896%40ultimate-member&new=2735896%40ultimate-member&sfp_email=&sfph_mail= Patch, Third Party Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/93cf6dce-892e-4106-bb37-b7952e5ea5a1?source=cve (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://www.wordfence.com/vulnerability-advisories/#CVE-2022-1208 Third Party Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

How SecUtils Interprets This CVE

SecUtils normalizes and enriches National Vulnerability Database (NVD) records by standardizing vendor and product identifiers, aggregating vulnerability metadata from both NVD and MITRE sources, and providing structured context for security teams. For ultimatemember's affected products, we extract Common Platform Enumeration (CPE) data, Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE) classifications, CVSS severity metrics, and reference data to enable rapid vulnerability prioritization and asset correlation. This record contains no exploit code, proof-of-concept instructions, or attack methodologies—only defensive intelligence necessary for patch management, risk assessment, and security operations.