Where
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Severity
8.1
Code Injection
AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

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 'referrerurl' branch of URSmartTags::process(), where the attacker-controlled HTTPREFERER header is only passed through sanitizetextfield() — which does not strip WordPress shortcode delimiters — before being substituted into a Content Restriction message that is subsequently executed via applyshortcodes()/doshortcode(). This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to execute arbitrary registered shortcodes on any restricted page whose message uses the supported {{referrerurl}} smart tag.

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