What is CVE-2024-5453?

CVE-2024-5453 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Metagauss Profilegrid, classified under Missing Authorization. CVSS score: 4.3/10. Published 2024-06-05.

How severe is CVE-2024-5453?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 4.3 out of 10.

Auth bypass in Metagauss Profilegrid

CVE-2024-5453

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_dismissible_notice and pm_wizard_update_group_icon functions in all versions up to, and including, 5.8.6. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to change arbitrary options to the value '1' or change group icons.

Vulnerability class: Broken Access Control

EPSS: 0.004 (27.7th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 4.3 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N.

Affected products

Metagauss Profilegrid
Metagauss Profilegrid – User Profiles, Groups And Communities — versions 0

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-862 — Missing Authorization

References

security@wordfence.com (Third Party Advisory)
security@wordfence.com (Product)
security@wordfence.com (Product)
security@wordfence.com (Patch)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2024-5453?: CVE-2024-5453 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Metagauss Profilegrid, classified under Missing Authorization. CVSS score: 4.3/10. Published 2024-06-05.
How severe is CVE-2024-5453?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 4.3 out of 10.