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ProfileGrid – User Profiles, Memberships, Groups and Communities, CVE-2025-13416

CVE, Research URL

CVE-2025-13416

Published on
Feb 05, 2026
Research Description
The ProfileGrid – User Profiles, Groups and Communities plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized user suspension due to a missing capability check on the pm_deactivate_user_from_group() function in all versions up to, and including, 5.9.7.2. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to suspend arbitrary users from groups, including administrators, via the pm_deactivate_user_from_group AJAX action.
Affected versions
max 5.9.7.3.
Status
vulnerable