CVE-2025-6977 (GCVE-0-2025-6977)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-07-16 04:24 – Updated: 2025-07-18 14:45
VLAI?
Summary
The ProfileGrid – User Profiles, Groups and Communities plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Reflected Cross-Site Scripting via the ‘pm_get_messenger_notification’ function in all versions up to, and including, 5.9.5.4 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that execute if they can successfully trick a logged-in user into performing an action such as clicking on a link.
Severity ?
6.1 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
CWE
  • CWE-79 - Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
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References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
metagauss ProfileGrid – User Profiles, Groups and Communities Affected: * , ≤ 5.9.5.4 (semver)
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Credits
Kenneth Billones
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