CVE-2024-6411: Metagauss Profilegrid

High severity, CVSS 8.8. EPSS: 0.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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 products

• Metagauss Profilegrid: before 5.9.0 (fixed in 5.9.0)

Published 2024-07-10. Last modified 2026-06-17.