MEDIUM 6.4 NVD
CVE-2026-120550
The WP User Manager – Registration Form, Login Form, User Profile Builder & Member Directory plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting v
The WP User Manager – Registration Form, Login Form, User Profile Builder & Member Directory plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'name (REST users endpoint) -> wp_users.display_name' parameter in all versions up to, and including, 2.10.2 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 is stored via the WordPress core REST endpoint POST /wp-json/wp/v2/users/me, which bypasses the plugin's own wpum_sanitize_text sanitizer applied on its front-end account form, making the save-time sanitization ineffective as a mitigation.
References
- https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/wp-user-manager.2.10.3.zip
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-user-manager/tags/2.10.2/includes/fields/cla
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-user-manager/tags/2.10.2/includes/fields/typ
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-user-manager/tags/2.10.2/includes/fields/wpu
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-user-manager/tags/2.10.2/templates/profiles/
This medium severity vulnerability with a CVSS score of 6.4 was published on 2026-11-06 via NVD.
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