ProfileGrid – User Profiles, Memberships, Groups and Communities, CVE-2023-3713

CVE, Research URL: CVE-2023-3713
Home page URL: Security reports for ProfileGrid – User Profiles, Memberships, Groups and Communities
Application: ProfileGrid – User Profiles, Memberships, Groups and Communities
Published on: Jul 18, 2023
Research Description: The ProfileGrid plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the 'profile_magic_check_smtp_connection' function in versions up to, and including, 5.5.1. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level permissions or above to update the site options arbitrarily. This can be used by attackers to achieve privilege escalation.
Affected versions: Min -, max 5.0.4.
Status: vulnerable