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CVE-2024-6411

HIGH CVSS: 8.8 Published: 2024-07-10 Modified: 2026-06-17

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.

Affected Platforms

Metagauss Profilegrid

Weakness Type

CWE-269, NVD-CWE-noinfo

References