CVE-2025-1408 (GCVE-0-2025-1408)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-03-22 04:22 – Updated: 2025-03-24 15:14
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Summary
The ProfileGrid – User Profiles, Groups and Communities plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the pm_decline_join_group_request and pm_approve_join_group_request functions in all versions up to, and including, 5.9.4.4. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to approve or decline join group requests which is normally should be available to administrators only.
Severity ?
4.3 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
CWE
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References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
metagauss ProfileGrid – User Profiles, Groups and Communities Affected: * , ≤ 5.9.4.4 (semver)
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Nguyen Tan Phat
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