# User Registration & Membership – Free & Paid Memberships, Subscriptions, Content Restriction, User Profile, Custom User Registration & Login Builder <= 5.3.1 - Authenticated (Subscriber+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via User Bio

- **ID:** WPSEC-2026-2712
- **Plugin:** User Registration & Membership – Free & Paid Memberships, Subscriptions, Content Restriction, User Profile, Custom User Registration & Login Builder (`user-registration`), https://wordpress.org/plugins/user-registration/
- **Affected versions:** all versions before 5.3.2
- **Fixed in:** 5.3.2 (Update to 5.3.2 or later.)
- **Severity:** Medium 6.4 (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N)
- **Weakness:** CWE-79
- **Usage among sites WPSec scans:** plugin Medium, affected versions Medium (as of 2026-11-07)
- **Attack surface analysis:** https://attacksurface.wpsec.com/plugin/user-registration
- **Fix released:** 2026-11-06
- **Published:** 2026-11-07
- **URL:** https://wpsec.com/vuln/WPSEC-2026-2712/

## Description

The User Registration & Membership plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the User Bio (description) profile field in all versions up to, and including, 5.3.1, due to insufficient input sanitization. The profile update saves the bio with update_user_meta(), which skips the HTML filtering WordPress applies in wp_update_user() to users without the unfiltered_html capability. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts that will execute whenever a user visits a page that displays the author biography.

## References

- https://wpsec.com/vuln/WPSEC-2026-2712/
- https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/user-registration/tags/5.3.2/
- https://wordpress.org/plugins/user-registration/

Source: WPSec, https://wpsec.com/vuln/WPSEC-2026-2712/

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