High severity · published Oct 3, 2026
CVE-2026-96270
Ultimate Member <= 2.13.1 - Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'form_id' Parameter
7.2
CVSS
0.2%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
The Ultimate Member – User Profile, Registration, Login, Member Directory, Content Restriction & Membership Plugin plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'form_id' parameter in all versions up to, and including, 2.13.1 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page. The injected payload is stored in the registering user's 'submitted' usermeta via update_user_meta() and is only triggered when an administrator opens the affected user record in the wp-admin Users modal, which inserts the unescaped output via jQuery .html().
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
Low
Integrity
Low
Availability
None
Scope
Changed
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.2% · higher than 16% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
UM
Affected product
UM
Ultimate Member – User Profile, Registration, Login, Member Directory, Content Restriction & Membership Plugin
ultimatemember
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-96270
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-96270
www.wordfence.com
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/5673f2b9-1c30-4ce0-8a8c-7580d0346cb9?source=cve
plugins.trac.wordpress.org
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/ultimate-member/tags/2.13.1/includes/um-short-functions.php#L980
plugins.trac.wordpress.org
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/ultimate-member/tags/2.13.1/includes/um-short-functions.php#L900
plugins.trac.wordpress.org
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/ultimate-member/tags/2.13.1/includes/admin/core/class-admin-builder.php#L1090
plugins.trac.wordpress.org
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/ultimate-member/tags/2.13.1/includes/core/class-form.php#L768
plugins.trac.wordpress.org
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/ultimate-member/tags/2.13.1/includes/core/class-form.php#L422
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