The User Profile Builder – Beautiful User Registration Forms, User Profiles & User Role Editor plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'display_name' parameter in all versions up to, and including, 4.0.3 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page. The payload persists in wp_comments.comment_author independently of the user account, so removing or changing the attacker's display name after the comment is posted does not neutralize the stored script.
Fix
Nothing published yet: no patch, vendor advisory or mitigation reference on NVD, no vendor advisory in the News for this CVE, not in CISA's KEV, no fixed package version. BaselineWatch does not guess at one.
Change history 2
- StatusReceived → DeferredNVD modified 2026-10-16 15:17
- First seenCVSS 6.4NVD modified 2026-10-16 06:17
Affected (CPE criteria) 0
NVD has not attached CPE configurations yet.
References 7
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/profile-builder/tags/4.0.3/features/functions.php#L582
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/profile-builder/tags/4.0.3/features/functions.php#L585
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/profile-builder/tags/4.0.3/features/functions.php#L593
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/profile-builder/tags/4.0.3/front-end/default-fields/display-name/display-name.php#L81
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3741133/profile-builder
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3741133/profile-builder/trunk/features/functions.php
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/2f466add-992b-46c7-a1cc-5c05d59f4bdf?source=cve