CVE-2024-8861: Metagauss Profilegrid

Medium severity, CVSS 5.4. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The ProfileGrid – User Profiles, Groups and Communities plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting in all versions up to, and including, 5.9.3.2 due to incorrect use of the wp_kses_allowed_html function, which allows the 'onclick' attribute for certain HTML elements without sufficient restriction or context validation. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Contributor-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.

Affected products

• Metagauss Profilegrid: before 5.9.3.3 (fixed in 5.9.3.3)

Published 2024-09-26. Last modified 2026-06-17.