Ultimate Member – User Profile, Registration, Login, Member Directory, Content Restriction & Membership Plugin

Registro de cambios

Important:

IMPORTANT: PLEASE UPDATE THE PLUGIN TO AT LEAST VERSION 2.6.7 IMMEDIATELY. VERSION 2.6.7 PATCHES SECURITY PRIVILEGE ESCALATION VULNERABILITY. PLEASE SEE THIS ARTICLE FOR MORE INFORMATION

2.11.3 2026-03-26

Enhancements

• Added: UM > Settings > Advanced > APIs section for set available APIs settings.
• Added: GoogleMaps API setting when it’s available.
• Added: Function UM()->mail()->enabled_email() for checking if the email notification is enabled by the user.
• Added: color type of sanitize settings saved in wp-admin.
• Added: Checking array type of submission data when url type of sanitize is used in wp-admin.
• Added: Enhance UM form sanitization filter with $form_data param. Added the $form_data parameter to the um_sanitize_form_submission filter.
• Added: Option for special character requirement for passwords. It’s situated in «General > Users > Password requires special character» (based on @faisalahammad suggestions)
• Added: Filter hook um_before_account_delete_text for changing before delete account text by 3rd-party plugins. End-customers can use it for translations.
• Added: Filter hook um_custom_{$message_key} (um_custom_pending_message, um_custom_checkmail_message) for changing after-registration message based on the user status by 3rd-party plugins. End-customers can use it for translations.
• Added: Filter hook um_convert_tags_blacklist_fields For 3rd-party integrations to control the usermeta keys in um_convert_tags() function.
• Added: .um-display-none CSS utility + umShow()/umHide()/umToggle() jQuery helpers.
• Added: um-notice JS library.

Bugfixes

• Fixed: Security issue, CVE ID: CVE-2026-4248. Added blacklist filter for convert_tag replace placeholders function.
• Fixed: HTML sanitization logic for textarea-type custom fields with enabled HTML using setting.
• Fixed: WP editor formatting to prevent incorrect HTML entity conversion when using html-mode in the textarea-type custom fields. Applied and removed this filter dynamically to avoid interfering with other processes.
• Fixed: Dynamic string translation pattern and improve escaping. Replaced incorrect __(‘%s’) pattern. (@faisalahammad)
• Fixed: wp_die() function triggering on the frontend actions. Added UM notice above the User Profile page. (based on @faisalahammad suggestions)
• Fixed: Password reset key handling for multiple users. Previously, the static reset key caused issues when handling password resets for multiple users simultaneously.
• Fixed: um_trim_string() function for using with UTF-8 symbols.
• Fixed: PHP Notice: Function WP_Scripts::add was called incorrectly.

Templates Requiring Update

• members.php
• message.php
• restricted-blog.php
• restricted-taxonomy.php

Note: Cached and optimized/minified assets(JS/CSS) must be flushed/re-generated after the upgrade

2.11.2 2026-02-10

Enhancements

• Added: Server-side validation when the Search Form is submitted.
• Added: Action hook um_approve_user_on_email_confirmation to natively approve the user after validating the email activation link.
• Added: JS filter wp.hook um_member_directory_popstate_ignore to stop window.pushSate in the member directory for 3rd-party integrations.

Bugfixes

• Fixed: Security issue, CVE ID: CVE-2025-15064. Deprecated the ability to use HTML inside the user description. It’s still allowed to use only predefined ‘user_description’ tags in wp_kses().
• Fixed: Security issue, CVE ID: CVE-2026-1404. Modified template item formatting to avoid using HTML characters in the filter values.
• Fixed: Profile photo dropdown menu position for screens smaller than 340px.
• Fixed: Display of the saved value of the «Privacy Options» > «Allowed roles» setting for the member directory.
• Fixed: Information in Site-Health about the registration form’s Template and Role settings.
• Fixed: Information in Site-Health about the login and profile form’s Template settings.

Templates Requiring Update

• members.php
• searchform.php

Note: Cached and optimized/minified assets(JS/CSS) must be flushed/re-generated after the upgrade

2.11.1 2025-12-16

Enhancements

• Added: ‘Privacy Options’ for Member Directory. ‘Who can see this member directory’ and ‘Allowed Roles’.
• Added: ‘Rate Limit’ setting for nopriv AJAX actions.

Bugfixes

• Fixed: Security issue CVE ID: CVE-2025-13220. Used shortcode_atts() function to avoid using wrong attributes.
• Fixed: Security issue CVE ID: CVE-2025-13217. Implementing proper input sanitization and escaping for iframe URLs in YouTube, Vimeo, and Google Maps embeds.
• Fixed: Security issue CVE ID: CVE-2025-14081. Filtering fields based on user permissions during Account form submission.
• Fixed: Security issue CVE ID: CVE-2025-12492. Added directory privacy settings and added rate limiting.

Templates Requiring Update

• members.php
• members-grid.php
• members-list.php

2.11.0 2025-12-02

Enhancements

• Added: Extra condition for checking the license activation requests.
• Added: 2nd $args attribute to the action hook ‘um_cover_area_content’.
• Added: $args and $user_id attributes to the action hook ‘um_after_profile_header_name’.
• Added: Class um-profile-subnav-{$subnav_id}-link to the sub navigation links in the User Profile page.
• Tweak: Updated Extensions_Updater class to use Action Scheduler in the upgrade process of the UM extensions.

Bugfixes

• Fixed: User profile links in the comments section on the frontend when the $comment->user_id is empty.
• Fixed: The emotize function regexp for better emoji converting.
• Fixed: The conflict between the image uploader and lazy-loading attribute added by 3rd-party plugins.
• Fixed: PHP warnings for roles without meta data.
• Fixed: Typo in labels.

See changelog for all versions.