XSS in Cozmoslabs User Profile Builder – Beautiful Registration Forms, Profiles & Role Editor

CVE-2025-8896

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 'gdpr_communication_preferences[]' parameter in all versions up to, and including, 3.14.3 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. This is only exploitable when the GDPR Communication Preferences module is enabled and at least one GDPR Communication Preferences field has been added to the edit profile form.

Vulnerability class: XSS (Cross-Site Scripting)

EPSS: 0.002 (10.3th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 6.4 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N.

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Weakness classification (CWE)

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Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2025-8896?
CVE-2025-8896 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Cozmoslabs User Profile Builder – Beautiful Registration Forms, Profiles & Role Editor, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 6.4/10. Published 2025-08-16.
How severe is CVE-2025-8896?
Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.4 out of 10.