WordPress security changelog
MEDIUM CVE-2026-4607 Deferred

ProfileGrid – User Profiles, Groups and Communities: A security weakness

ProfileGrid – User Profiles, Groups and Communities is affected by a security weakness. Exploitation requires at least subscriber-level access. The resulting impact depends on how the affected component exposes the vulnerable operation. The published affected range is <= 5.9.8.4.

CVE / CNA score 4.3 CVSS 3.1 · security@wordfence.com
NVD score Pending NVD has not published its own CVSS assessment.
Component
ProfileGrid – User Profiles, Groups and Communities
Plugin slug
profilegrid-user-profiles-groups-and-communities
Affected
<= 5.9.8.4
Safe version
> 5.9.8.4
Published
May 13, 2026
Weakness
CWE-862 — Missing Authorization

This CVE was published May 13, 2026 and is one of 55 known issues for this plugin.

What to do

Update, patch or deactivate.

Update ProfileGrid – User Profiles, Groups and Communities to a release after 5.9.8.4, or disable and remove it until a fixed version is available.

A safe version is available, so updating to that version or later is the preferred remediation. If an immediate update is not practical, consider a targeted application patch or temporarily restricting the affected functionality.

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.

Source record

Technical description

The ProfileGrid – User Profiles, Groups and Communities plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to authorization bypass in all versions up to, and including, 5.9.8.4. This is due to the plugin not properly verifying that a user is authorized to perform an action via the pm_set_group_order, pm_set_group_items, and pm_set_field_order AJAX actions. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to modify site-wide ProfileGrid group settings including group menu order, group list order, group icon display, and field ordering.

CVE / CNA vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

References

Primary and upstream sources