ProfileGrid – User Profiles, Memberships, Groups and Communities, CVE-2024-6411

CVE, Research URL: CVE-2024-6411
Home page URL: Security reports for ProfileGrid – User Profiles, Memberships, Groups and Communities
Application: ProfileGrid – User Profiles, Memberships, Groups and Communities
Published on: Jul 10, 2024
Research Description: The ProfileGrid – User Profiles, Groups and Communities plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation in all versions up to, and including, 5.8.9. This is due to a lack of validation on user-supplied data in the 'pm_upload_image' AJAX action. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to update their user capabilities to Administrator.
Affected versions: Min -, max 5.9.0.
Status: vulnerable