What is CVE-2026-12073?

CVE-2026-12073 is a critical-severity vulnerability in Metagauss Profilegrid – User Profiles, Groups And Communities, classified under Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key. CVSS score: 9.8/10. Published 2026-06-30.

How severe is CVE-2026-12073?

Critical severity. CVSS v3 base score is 9.8 out of 10.

Auth bypass in Metagauss Profilegrid – User Profiles, Groups And Communities

CVE-2026-12073

The ProfileGrid – User Profiles, Groups and Communities plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation via account takeover in all versions up to, and including, 5.9.9.5. This is due to the plugin not validating a `user_login`…

Vulnerability class: IDOR (Insecure Direct Object Reference)

EPSS: 0.003 (22.7th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 9.8 (Critical). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H.

Affected products

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

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-639 — Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key

References

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2026-12073?: CVE-2026-12073 is a critical-severity vulnerability in Metagauss Profilegrid – User Profiles, Groups And Communities, classified under Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key. CVSS score: 9.8/10. Published 2026-06-30.
How severe is CVE-2026-12073?: Critical severity. CVSS v3 base score is 9.8 out of 10.