CVE-2024-6411 Privilege escalation in ProfileGrid – User Profiles, Groups and Communities
Authenticated subscribers can escalate privileges to Administrator via improper validation in the ProfileGrid WordPress plugin.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2024-6411?
CVE-2024-6411 is a high-severity vulnerability in metagauss ProfileGrid – User Profiles, Groups and Communities, published on 10 Jul 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 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.
Weakness: CWE-269
Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-6411?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Metagauss Profilegrid.
How do I fix CVE-2024-6411?
No fix has been published for CVE-2024-6411 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Is CVE-2024-6411 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-6411 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
- CVE-2025-0724 ProfileGrid – User Profiles, Groups and Communities <= 5.9.4.5 - Authenticated (Subscriber+) PHP Object Injection
- CVE-2023-3713 ProfileGrid <= 5.5.1 - Authenticated (Subscriber+) Arbitrary Option Update
- CVE-2023-0940 ProfileGrid < 5.3.1 - Subscriber+ Arbitrary Password Reset
- CVE-2019-15873 Code injection in n/a
Sources
Also known as GHSA-wgp4-g5wv-7wf9.