ProfileGrid – User Profiles, Memberships, Groups and Communities, CVE-2023-3404

CVE, Research URL: CVE-2023-3404
Home page URL: Security reports for ProfileGrid – User Profiles, Memberships, Groups and Communities
Application: ProfileGrid – User Profiles, Memberships, Groups and Communities
Published on: Aug 31, 2023
Research Description: The ProfileGrid plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized decryption of private information in versions up to, and including, 5.5.0. This is due to the passphrase and iv being hardcoded in the 'pm_encrypt_decrypt_pass' function and used across all sites running the plugin. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with administrator-level permissions or above to decrypt and view users' passwords. If combined with another vulnerability, this can potentially grant lower-privileged users access to users' passwords.
Affected versions: Min -, max 5.5.1.
Status: vulnerable