ProfileGrid – User Profiles, Memberships, Groups and Communities < 2.8.6 - Remote Code Execution

Improper Control of Generation of Code ('Code Injection')
CVE CVE-2019-15873
CVSS High (8.8)
Publicly Published May 18, 2018
Last Updated January 22, 2024
Researcher Karim El Ouerghemmi
Description

The profilegrid-user-profiles-groups-and-communities plugin before 2.8.6 for WordPress has remote code execution via an wp-admin/admin-ajax.php request with the action=pm_template_preview&html=<?php substring followed by PHP code.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug profilegrid-user-profiles-groups-and-communities (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 2.8.6
Patched Version
  • 2.8.6
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