How severe is CVE-2025-8878?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.

RCE in Properfraction Paid Membership Plugin, Ecommerce, User Registration Form, Login Profile & Restrict Content – Profilepress

CVE-2025-8878

The The Paid Membership Plugin, Ecommerce, User Registration Form, Login Form, User Profile & Restrict Content – ProfilePress plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to arbitrary shortcode execution in all versions up to, and including, 4.16.4. This is due to the software allowing users to execute an action that does not properly validate a value before running do_shortcode. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to execute arbitrary shortcodes.

Vulnerability class: RCE (Remote Code Execution)

EPSS: 0.004 (37.6th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 6.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N.

Affected products

Properfraction Paid Membership Plugin, Ecommerce, User Registration Form, Login Profile & Restrict Content – Profilepress — versions 0

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-94 — Code Injection

References

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2025-8878?: CVE-2025-8878 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Properfraction Paid Membership Plugin, Ecommerce, User Registration Form, Login Profile & Restrict Content – Profilepress, classified under Code Injection. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2025-08-16.
How severe is CVE-2025-8878?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.