CVE-2024-13740: Metagauss Profilegrid

Medium severity, CVSS 4.3. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The ProfileGrid – User Profiles, Groups and Communities plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Insecure Direct Object Reference in all versions up to, and including, 5.9.4.2 via the pm_messenger_show_messages function due to missing validation on a user controlled key. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to read private conversations of other users.

Affected products

• Metagauss Profilegrid: before 5.9.4.3 (fixed in 5.9.4.3)

Published 2025-02-18. Last modified 2026-06-17.