CVEvulnerability
CVE-2024-5453
4.3 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2024-06-05
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 4.3 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 4.3 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-862
Description
The ProfileGrid – User Profiles, Groups and Communities plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the pm_dismissible_notice and pm_wizard_update_group_icon functions in all versions up to, and including, 5.8.6. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to change arbitrary options to the value '1' or change group icons.
Affected configurations
• metagauss profilegrid (< 5.8.7)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-862 Missing Authorization weakness
References
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/profilegrid-user-profiles-groups-and-communities/trunk/admin/class-profile-magic-admin.php#L1378 Product
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/profilegrid-user-profiles-groups-and-communities/trunk/admin/class-profile-magic-admin.php#L2006 Product
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3095503/profilegrid-user-profiles-groups-and-communities/trunk/admin/class-profile-magic-admin.php?contextall=1 Patch
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/7a44d182-2a43-47c0-ab2e-36c0514c1d47?source=cve Third Party Advisory
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/profilegrid-user-profiles-groups-and-communities/trunk/admin/class-profile-magic-admin.php#L1378 Product
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/profilegrid-user-profiles-groups-and-communities/trunk/admin/class-profile-magic-admin.php#L2006 Product
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3095503/profilegrid-user-profiles-groups-and-communities/trunk/admin/class-profile-magic-admin.php?contextall=1 Patch
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/7a44d182-2a43-47c0-ab2e-36c0514c1d47?source=cve Third Party Advisory