CVE-2026-4609: Metagauss Profilegrid – User Profiles, Groups And Communities

High severity, CVSS 7.1. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The ProfileGrid – User Profiles, Groups and Communities plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized access due to a missing capability check on the pm_invite_user function in all versions up to, and including, 5.9.8.4. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to add themselves or any registered user to any ProfileGrid group, including closed and paid groups, bypassing all authorization and payment gates.

Affected products

• Metagauss Profilegrid – User Profiles, Groups And Communities: up to and including 5.9.8.4

Published 2026-05-13. Last modified 2026-06-17.