ProfileGrid – User Profiles, Groups and Communities <= 5.9.4.2 - Authenticated (Subscriber+) Limited Server-Side Request Forgery

Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF)
CVE CVE-2024-13741
CVSS Medium (5.4)
Publicly Published February 17, 2025
Last Updated February 18, 2025
Researcher Tim Coen
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.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug profilegrid-user-profiles-groups-and-communities (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 5.9.4.2
Patched Version
  • 5.9.4.3
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