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CVE-2025-1408

ProfileGrid – User Profiles, Groups and Communities <= 5.9.4.4 - Missing Authorinzation to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Join Group Requests Management

No known exploitation. EPSS puts it in the 21st percentile. Fixed in 5.9.4.5.

CVSS 3.14.3MediumEPSS percentile21st0.3% chance in 30 daysCISA KEVNot listedNo confirmed exploitation
No public exploit knownFix5.9.4.5Upgrade to this build

Published Updated Sources: CVE.org, NVD

NVD CVE.org

What to do

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  • metagauss ProfileGrid – User Profiles, Groups and CommunitiesAffected: ≤ 5.9.4.4Upgrade to: after 5.9.4.4Stated by: CVE record
  • Metagauss ProfilegridAffected: < 5.9.4.5Upgrade to: 5.9.4.5Stated by: NVD

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What it is

From the CVE record

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.

In plain language

No plain-language summary for this CVE yet.

Exploitation

Where each signal puts this CVE on the scale from published to confirmed exploited.

EPSS21st
CISA KEV

Not in the catalog. CISA has not confirmed exploitation.

Public exploits

No public exploit or proof of concept found in the sources we track.

EPSS

0.3% chance of exploitation activity in the next 30 days, which ranks it in the 21st percentile of scored CVEs.

Exploit Prediction Scoring System, FIRST.org. A probability, not a confirmation.

Lifecycle

5 events over 349 days, from the signal feeds we watch.

  1. Nuclei check added
  2. Record updated
  3. Publishedweakness classified, att&ck mapped

Affected products

Technical detail

CVSS 3.1 vector

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

Scored 4.3 by NVD.

How it is reached

  • Attack Vector NetworkExploitable remotely over the network without any special conditions
  • Attack Complexity LowNo special conditions — the attack can be reliably reproduced
  • Privileges Required LowRequires basic user-level privileges
  • User Interaction NoneNo user interaction needed — fully automated exploitation

Scope

  • Scope UnchangedImpact is limited to the vulnerable component itself

Impact if exploited

  • Confidentiality NoneNo confidentiality impact
  • Integrity LowData modification is possible but limited in scope or consequence
  • Availability NoneNo availability impact

Weaknesses

ATT&CK techniques

Mapped from the weaknesses above (CWE to ATT&CK), not observed in attacks.

Sources

References in the record

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