ProfileGrid – User Profiles, Groups and Communities: SQL injection
ProfileGrid – User Profiles, Groups and Communities is affected by SQL injection. Exploitation requires at least subscriber-level access. A successful request can alter database queries and expose or modify WordPress data.
- Component
- ProfileGrid – User Profiles, Groups and Communities
- Affected
- See vendor advisory
- Safe version
- See mitigation notes
- Published
- Mar 22, 2025
This CVE was published Mar 22, 2025 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 blind and time-based SQL Injections via the rid and search parameters in all versions up to, and including, 5.9.4.7 due to insufficient escaping on the user supplied parameter and lack of sufficient preparation on the existing SQL query. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to append additional SQL queries into already existing queries that can be used to extract sensitive information from the database.
CVE / CNA vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
NVD vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N