CVE-2018-17866 — Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in includes/core/um-actions-

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in includes/core/um-actions-login.php in the "Ultimate Member - User Profile & Membership" plugin before 2.0.28 for WordPress allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the "Primary butt

01What is this vulnerability?

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in includes/core/um-actions-login.php in the "Ultimate Member - User Profile & Membership" plugin before 2.0.28 for WordPress allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the "Primary button Text" or "Second button text" field.

02Affected products

Vendor	Product	Versions
n	a / n/a	n/a

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

• Patch to a fixed version listed in the vendor advisory (see references below).
• Mitigate with WAF rules, network egress filters, or feature flags where the patch is not yet available.
• Hunt historical logs for exploitation indicators — see Detection signatures below.

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

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07Related CVEs

No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

08Timeline

• Published: 2018-10-09T22:00:00.000Z
• Last modified: 2024-08-05T11:01:14.748Z

09References

• serhack.me — https://serhack.me/articles/ultimate-member-xss-security-issue
• wordpress.org — https://wordpress.org/plugins/ultimate-member/#developers
• wpvulndb.com — https://wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/9615