CVE-2024-6411: metagauss profilegrid Improper Privilege Management
Vulnerability summary
CVE-2024-6411 is a high (CVSS 8.8) Improper Privilege Management vulnerability in metagauss profilegrid. EPSS estimates a 0.77% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 55% of scored vulnerabilities. Fixed in 5.9.0.
Timeline
- 10-07-2024PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
- 08-04-2026Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.
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.
CVSS metrics
3 scores · 3 sources · 1 version- NVDNIST8.8HighCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- wordfenceSource8.8HighCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS trend
Probability
0.77%
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days
Percentile
55%
Versus all other CVEs
30-day change
0.00 pp
From 0.77% on 21-09-2026
Known exploited
Compare KEV catalogsNot in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.
Public exploits
0 foundNo public exploits indexed.
Weaknesses
CWE · root causeAffected systems
Metagauss2 products
Wordpress1 product
- profilegrid-user-profiles-groups-and-communities≤ 5.8.9 (fixed in 5.9.0)
2 vendors · 3 products