CVE-2026-15931
Simple Membership < 4.7.8 - Unauthenticated Stored XSS via PayPal Subscription Subscriber Name
The Simple Membership WordPress plugin before 4.7.8 does not sanitise a subscriber name value received from an unauthenticated payment approval request, nor escape it when displaying it in the administration dashboard, allowing unauthenticated attackers to store arbitrary JavaScript that executes in an administrator's session.
Attack profile
How easy it is to exploit
- Attack vector
- Network
- Complexity
- Low
- Privileges needed
- None
- User interaction
- Required
What an attacker can affect
- Confidentiality
- Low
- Integrity
- Low
- Availability
- None
Exploit likelihood
What each source reports
CVE List Score used
Simple Membership < 4.7.8 - Unauthenticated Stored XSS via PayPal Subscription Subscriber Name
The Simple Membership WordPress plugin before 4.7.8 does not sanitise a subscriber name value received from an unauthenticated payment approval request, nor escape it when displaying it in the administration dashboard, allowing unauthenticated attackers to store arbitrary JavaScript that executes in an administrator's session.
- Record
CVE-2026-15931- CVSS 3.1
- 6.1 Medium
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N - Weakness
- CWE-79
- Updated
- 2026-11-02
EUVDEUVD-2026-52176
The Simple Membership WordPress plugin before 4.7.8 does not sanitise a subscriber name value received from an unauthenticated payment approval request, nor escape it when displaying it in the administration dashboard, allowing unauthenticated attackers to store arbitrary JavaScript that executes in an administrator's session.
- Record
EUVD-2026-52176- CVSS 3.1
- 6.1 Medium
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N - Updated
- 2026-11-02
GitHub AdvisoriesGHSA-cc2x-fmqx-2g5v
The Simple Membership WordPress plugin before 4.7.8 does not sanitise a subscriber name value...
The Simple Membership WordPress plugin before 4.7.8 does not sanitise a subscriber name value received from an unauthenticated payment approval request, nor escape it when displaying it in the administration dashboard, allowing unauthenticated attackers to store arbitrary JavaScript that executes in an administrator's session.
- Record
GHSA-cc2x-fmqx-2g5v- CVSS 3.1
- 6.1 Medium
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N - Weakness
- CWE-79
- Updated
- 2026-11-02
NVD
The Simple Membership WordPress plugin before 4.7.8 does not sanitise a subscriber name value received from an unauthenticated payment approval request, nor escape it when displaying it in the administration dashboard, allowing unauthenticated attackers to store arbitrary JavaScript that executes in an administrator's session.
- Record
CVE-2026-15931- CVSS 3.1
- 6.1 Medium
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N - Weakness
- CWE-79
- Updated
- 2026-11-02
Affected products
History
| Recorded | Changed | Sources |
|---|---|---|
| first indexed | CVE List, EUVD, GitHub Advisories, NVD |
Dates are when Every CVE recorded each change. Upstream dates may differ.
In short
CVE-2026-15931 is a medium vulnerability (CVSS 6.1) in Unknown Simple Membership, published August 3, 2026. No source lists public exploit code. EPSS puts the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days at 0.27%, the 20th percentile. No source names a fixed version.