ProfileGrid – User Profiles, Memberships, Groups and Communities, CVE-2023-3714

CVE, Research URL: CVE-2023-3714
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 'edit_group' handler in versions up to, and including, 5.5.2. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with group ownership, to update group options, including the 'associate_role' parameter, which defines the member's role. This issue was partially patched in version 5.5.2 preventing privilege escalation, however, it was fully patched in 5.5.3.
Affected versions: Min -, max 5.5.3.
Status: vulnerable