Vulnerabilities > CVE-2024-5453 - Missing Authorization vulnerability in Metagauss Profilegrid

047910
CVSS 4.3 - MEDIUM
Attack vector
NETWORK
Attack complexity
LOW
Privileges required
LOW
Confidentiality impact
NONE
Integrity impact
LOW
Availability impact
NONE
network
low complexity
metagauss
CWE-862

Summary

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.

Vulnerable Configurations

Part Description Count
Application
Metagauss
317

Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)