CVE-2024-3606 ProfileGrid – User Profiles, Memberships, Groups and Communities <= 5.8.3 - Missing Authorization

What is CVE-2024-3606?

CVE-2024-3606 is a medium-severity missing authorization vulnerability in metagauss ProfileGrid – User Profiles, Groups and Communities, published on 2 May 2024. 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 plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized deletion of data due to a missing capability check on the pm_upload_cover_image function in all versions up to, and including, 5.8.3. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber access or higher, to delete attachments.

Weakness: CWE-862

Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-3606?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Metagauss Profilegrid.

How do I fix CVE-2024-3606?

No fix has been published for CVE-2024-3606 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade, and check permissions on every request on the server, not only in the interface. More about Missing authorization.

Is CVE-2024-3606 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-3606 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-55gc-5h36-66xg.