CVE-2024-13740 Information disclosure in ProfileGrid – User Profiles, Groups and Communities

What is CVE-2024-13740?

CVE-2024-13740 is a medium-severity vulnerability in metagauss ProfileGrid – User Profiles, Groups and Communities, published on 18 Feb 2025. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

The ProfileGrid – User Profiles, Groups and Communities plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Insecure Direct Object Reference in all versions up to, and including, 5.9.4.2 via the pm_messenger_show_messages function due to missing validation on a user controlled key. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to read private conversations of other users.

Weakness: CWE-639

Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-13740?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Metagauss Profilegrid.

How do I fix CVE-2024-13740?

No fix has been published for CVE-2024-13740 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Is CVE-2024-13740 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-13740 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in metagauss ProfileGrid – User Profiles, Groups and Communities

• CVE-2024-30490 WordPress ProfileGrid plugin <= 5.7.8 - SQL Injection vulnerability Critical 9.3
• CVE-2025-0724 ProfileGrid – User Profiles, Groups and Communities <= 5.9.4.5 - Authenticated (Subscriber+) PHP Object Injection High 8.8
• CVE-2024-6411 Privilege escalation in ProfileGrid – User Profiles, Groups and Communities High 8.8
• CVE-2023-3713 ProfileGrid <= 5.5.1 - Authenticated (Subscriber+) Arbitrary Option Update High 8.8
• CVE-2023-0940 ProfileGrid < 5.3.1 - Subscriber+ Arbitrary Password Reset High 8.8

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as GHSA-3jqh-85c5-qcrg.