CVE-2025-1408 Missing authorization in ProfileGrid – User Profiles, Groups and Communities
Authenticated subscribers can approve or decline group join requests due to missing capability checks 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-2025-1408?
CVE-2025-1408 is a medium-severity missing authorization vulnerability in metagauss ProfileGrid – User Profiles, Groups and Communities, published on 22 Mar 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 unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the pm_decline_join_group_request and pm_approve_join_group_request functions in all versions up to, and including, 5.9.4.4. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to approve or decline join group requests which is normally should be available to administrators only.
Weakness: CWE-862
Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-1408?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Metagauss Profilegrid.
How do I fix CVE-2025-1408?
No fix has been published for CVE-2025-1408 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-2025-1408 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-1408 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-2024-6411 Privilege escalation in ProfileGrid – User Profiles, Groups and Communities
- CVE-2023-3713 ProfileGrid <= 5.5.1 - Authenticated (Subscriber+) Arbitrary Option Update
- CVE-2023-0940 ProfileGrid < 5.3.1 - Subscriber+ Arbitrary Password Reset
Sources
Also known as GHSA-mh84-747x-6j6c.