ProfileGrid – User Profiles, Groups and Communities: Privilege escalation or authentication bypass
ProfileGrid – User Profiles, Groups and Communities is affected by privilege escalation or authentication bypass. Exploitation requires at least subscriber-level access. A successful request can grant permissions or access that the caller should not possess.
- Component
- ProfileGrid – User Profiles, Groups and Communities
- Affected
- See vendor advisory
- Safe version
- See mitigation notes
- Published
- Jul 10, 2024
This CVE was published Jul 10, 2024 and is one of 55 known issues for this plugin.
Update, patch or deactivate.
Update ProfileGrid – User Profiles, Groups and Communities to a release outside the affected range, or disable and remove it until a fixed version is available.
No confirmed safe version is listed. Consider a vendor-supported patch or temporarily restricting the affected functionality while you assess the risk.
Deactivate only when warranted by your risk profile, or when advised by your hosting provider in the limited circumstances where the vulnerability cannot otherwise be mitigated. If you’re unsure which action is appropriate, contact Fused or your hosting provider for guidance.
Technical description
The ProfileGrid – User Profiles, Groups and Communities plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation in all versions up to, and including, 5.8.9. This is due to a lack of validation on user-supplied data in the 'pm_upload_image' AJAX action. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to update their user capabilities to Administrator.
CVE / CNA vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Primary and upstream sources
- NVD record for CVE-2024-6411
- WordPress upstream reference plugins.trac.wordpress.org
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- Wordfence advisory wordfence.com
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- WordPress upstream reference plugins.trac.wordpress.org
- WordPress upstream reference plugins.trac.wordpress.org
- WordPress upstream reference plugins.trac.wordpress.org
- Wordfence advisory wordfence.com