CVE-2026-19804s2Member <= 260814 - Unauthenticated Remote Code Execution via 'first_name' Parameter in PayPal Proxy Return
- 8.8HighCVSS base score
- 1.0%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 35% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
The s2Member – Excellent for All Kinds of Memberships, Content Restriction Paywalls & Member Access Subscriptions plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Remote Code Execution in all versions up to, and including, 260814 via the 'first_name' parameter parameter. This is due to insufficient sanitization of the first_name parameter via esc_refs(), which strips only regex backreferences and not PHP tags, before substitution into the eval'd Signup Tracking Codes template, combined with disclosure of the site-global proxy verification key that allows PayPal postback verification to be bypassed. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to execute code on the server. Successful exploitation requires that the site administrator has configured a Signup Tracking Codes template containing the %%first_name%% placeholder (a documented, GUI-supported feature) and that the attacker has obtained the site-global proxy verification key, which is exposed in plaintext in the JSON response of any PayPal Checkout AJAX request on the target site.
Timeline
ID reserved
By Wordfence
- 43 days later
· 43 days later
Published
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| WordfenceCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | High8.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
| NVDNVD · Deferred | 3.1 | High8.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.0% · top 35% of all CVEs (14 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: total
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 8.8.
Affected products
References
References10
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/e87da8fa-04cc-4b9a-9dde-be7d4f2bd76e?source=cve (opens in a new tab)
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/s2member/trunk/src/includes/classes/utilities.inc.php#L49 (opens in a new tab)
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/s2member/trunk/src/includes/classes/tracking-codes.inc.php#L71 (opens in a new tab)
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/s2member/trunk/src/includes/classes/paypal-return-in-subscr-or-wa-w-level.inc.php#L311 (opens in a new tab)
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/s2member/trunk/src/includes/classes/paypal-return-in-subscr-or-wa-w-level.inc.php#L319 (opens in a new tab)
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/s2member/trunk/src/includes/classes/paypal-utilities.inc.php#L92 (opens in a new tab)
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/s2member/trunk/src/includes/classes/paypal-utilities.inc.php#L185 (opens in a new tab)
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/s2member/trunk/src/includes/classes/paypal-checkout-in.inc.php#L736 (opens in a new tab)
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/s2member/trunk/src/includes/classes/paypal-return-in.inc.php#L47 (opens in a new tab)
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?reponame=&old=3671073%40s2member&new=3671073%40s2member (opens in a new tab)
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2026-86577 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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