CVE-2024-5453 ProfileGrid <= 5.8.6 - Missing Authorization

What is CVE-2024-5453?

CVE-2024-5453 is a medium-severity missing authorization vulnerability in metagauss ProfileGrid – User Profiles, Groups and Communities, published on 5 Jun 2024. 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 unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the pm_dismissible_notice and pm_wizard_update_group_icon functions in all versions up to, and including, 5.8.6. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to change arbitrary options to the value '1' or change group icons.

Weakness: CWE-862

Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-5453?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Metagauss Profilegrid.

How do I fix CVE-2024-5453?

No fix has been published for CVE-2024-5453 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-2024-5453 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-5453 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-p82q-4g4j-x67h.