What is CVE-2026-1271?

CVE-2026-1271 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Metagauss Profilegrid – User Profiles, Groups And Communities, classified under Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key. CVSS score: 5.3/10. Published 2026-02-05.

How severe is CVE-2026-1271?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.3 out of 10.

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

CVE-2026-1271

The ProfileGrid – User Profiles, Groups and Communities plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Insecure Direct Object Reference in all versions up to, and including, 5.9.7.2 via the 'pm_upload_image' and 'pm_upload_cover_image' AJAX actions…

Vulnerability class: IDOR (Insecure Direct Object Reference)

EPSS: 0.000 (3.9th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.3 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N.

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-2026-1271?: CVE-2026-1271 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Metagauss Profilegrid – User Profiles, Groups And Communities, classified under Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key. CVSS score: 5.3/10. Published 2026-02-05.
How severe is CVE-2026-1271?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.3 out of 10.