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CVE-2024-13740

Published: Feb 18, 2025

Modified: Apr 8, 2026

PUBLISHED

CVSS v3.1

4.3

MEDIUM

Description

The ProfileGrid – User Profiles, Groups and Communities plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Insecure Direct Object Reference in all versions up to, and including, 5.9.4.2 via the pm_messenger_show_messages function due to missing validation on a user controlled key. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to read private conversations of other users.

VendorProductVersions

metagauss

ProfileGrid – User Profiles, Groups and Communities

affected
0 - <= 5.9.4.2

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-639

CVSS v3.1 Details

CVSS v3.1 Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Low

Privileges Required

Low

User Interaction

None

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

Low

Integrity

None

Availability

None

References

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