What is CVE-2024-8861?

CVE-2024-8861 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Metagauss Profilegrid – User Profiles, Groups And Communities, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 6.4/10. Published 2024-09-26.

How severe is CVE-2024-8861?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.4 out of 10.

Is CVE-2024-8861 known to be exploited?

2 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

XSS in Metagauss Profilegrid – User Profiles, Groups And Communities

CVE-2024-8861

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…

Vulnerability class: XSS (Cross-Site Scripting)

EPSS: 0.003 (49.2th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 6.4 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N.

Affected products

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

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-79 — Cross-site Scripting

Public proof-of-concept exploits

References

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2024-8861?: CVE-2024-8861 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Metagauss Profilegrid – User Profiles, Groups And Communities, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 6.4/10. Published 2024-09-26.
How severe is CVE-2024-8861?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.4 out of 10.
Is CVE-2024-8861 known to be exploited?: 2 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.