# CVE-2022-0233: ProfileGrid – User Profiles, Memberships, Groups and Communities <= 4.7.4 Authenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting

> Authenticated users can inject arbitrary scripts into their profiles via insufficient escaping, potentially leading to code execution in other users' browsers.

- **Severity:** Medium 6.4 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Any signed-in user
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 18 Jan 2022
- **Updated:** 13 Feb 2025
- **Also known as:** GHSA-q3m4-j7fx-35xr

## What is CVE-2022-0233?

CVE-2022-0233 is a medium-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in ProfileGrid – User Profiles, Memberships, Groups and Communities, published on 18 Jan 2022. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

The ProfileGrid – User Profiles, Memberships, Groups and Communities WordPress plugin is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting due to insufficient escaping via the pm_user_avatar and pm_cover_image parameters found in the ~/admin/class-profile-magic-admin.php file which allows attackers with authenticated user access, such as subscribers, to inject arbitrary web scripts into their profile, in versions up to and including 1.2.7.

Weakness: CWE-79 (Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-0233?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Metagauss Profilegrid.

## How do I fix CVE-2022-0233?

No fix has been published for CVE-2022-0233 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2022-0233 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-0233 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in ProfileGrid – User Profiles, Memberships, Groups and Communities

- [CVE-2024-30490](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-30490/): WordPress ProfileGrid plugin <= 5.7.8 - SQL Injection vulnerability (critical 9.3)
- [CVE-2025-0724](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-0724/): ProfileGrid – User Profiles, Groups and Communities <= 5.9.4.5 - Authenticated (Subscriber+) PHP Object Injection (high 8.8)
- [CVE-2024-6411](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-6411/): Privilege escalation in ProfileGrid – User Profiles, Groups and Communities (high 8.8)
- [CVE-2023-3713](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-3713/): ProfileGrid <= 5.5.1 - Authenticated (Subscriber+) Arbitrary Option Update (high 8.8)
- [CVE-2023-0940](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-0940/): ProfileGrid < 5.3.1 - Subscriber+ Arbitrary Password Reset (high 8.8)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2022-0233 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2022-0233 is a medium-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in ProfileGrid – User Profiles, Memberships, Groups and Communities, published on 18 Jan 2022. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-0233 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: ProfileGrid – User Profiles, Memberships, Groups and Communities. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-0233/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-0233/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-0233
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-0233
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2022-0233

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-0233/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.