ProfileGrid – User Profiles, Memberships, Groups and Communities <= 5.7.9 - Insecure Direct Object Reference

Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key
CVE CVE-2024-32808
CVSS Medium (4.3)
Publicly Published April 22, 2024
Last Updated April 29, 2024
Researcher Kyle Sanchez
Description

The ProfileGrid – User Profiles, Memberships, Groups and Communities plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Insecure Direct Object Reference in all versions up to, and including, 5.7.9 due to missing validation on a user controlled key in the pg_show_msg_panel() function. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, to view other's messages.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug profilegrid-user-profiles-groups-and-communities (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 5.7.9
Patched Version
  • 5.8.0
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