CVE Catalog

CVE-2026-92798

HighCVSS 8.1
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.37%

29th percentile - higher than 29% of all known CVEs

Summary

The User Registration & Membership plugin for WordPress in versions up to and including 5.2.8 is vulnerable to Arbitrary Shortcode Execution due to insufficient input sanitization in the 'referrer_url' branch of UR_Smart_Tags::process(). The attacker-controlled HTTP_REFERER header passes only through sanitize_text_field(), which does not strip WordPress shortcode delimiters, before being substituted into a Content Restriction message executed via apply_shortcodes()/do_shortcode().

Risk Assessment

An unauthenticated attacker can execute arbitrary registered shortcodes on any restricted page whose message uses the {{referrer_url}} smart tag, potentially leading to data disclosure or unwanted actions.

Recommendation

Update the User Registration & Membership plugin to a version newer than 5.2.8; until then, avoid using the {{referrer_url}} smart tag in Content Restriction messages.

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Original NVD description (English source)

The User Registration & Membership plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Arbitrary Shortcode Execution in versions up to, and including, 5.2.8 This is due to insufficient input sanitization in the 'referrer_url' branch of UR_Smart_Tags::process(), where the attacker-controlled HTTP_REFERER header is only passed through sanitize_text_field() — which does not strip WordPress shortcode delimiters — before being substituted into a Content Restriction message that is subsequently executed via apply_shortcodes()/do_shortcode(). This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to execute arbitrary registered shortcodes on any restricted page whose message uses the supported {{referrer_url}} smart tag.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS