CVE-2025-1408: 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 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.

Affected products

• Metagauss Profilegrid: before 5.9.4.5 (fixed in 5.9.4.5)

Published 2025-03-22. Last modified 2026-06-17.