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ProfileGrid <= 5.9.7.2 — Insecure Direct Object Reference to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Arbitrary User Profile and Cover Image Modification

CVE-2026-1271Published · Updated

Action summary

Affected: ≤5.9.7.2Update to 5.9.7.3 or newer

All remediation steps
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Severity
Medium5.3
CVSS
5.3
CVSS 3.1 · CNA (Wordfence)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
What does this vector mean?
AV:N Attack vector
Network
AC:L Attack complexity
Low
PR:N Privileges required
None
UI:N User interaction
None
S:U Scope
Unchanged
C:N Confidentiality
None
I:L Integrity
Low
A:N Availability
None
Weakness
CWE-639 Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key
Required access
No account needed
Exploit prediction (EPSS)
No score
CISA KEV
Not listed
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Am I affected?

ProfileGrid – User Profiles, Groups and Communities profilegrid-user-profiles-groups-and-communities

  1. Affected≤ 5.9.7.2
  2. Patched in5.9.7.3

Update to 5.9.7.3 or newer.

You are affected if you run ≤ 5.9.7.2. Version 5.9.7.3 and later are not affected by this issue.

  • Check your version: in wp-admin go to Plugins → Installed Plugins and read the version under ProfileGrid – User Profiles, Groups and Communities.
  • No admin access? Run a passive check of your site. It reads public files only.
  • No account is needed to exploit this. Treat any exposed site on an affected version as at risk.

What to do

  1. Update to version 5.9.7.3, or a newer patched version
  2. Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
  3. Watch ProfileGrid – User Profiles, Groups and Communities to get an email when the next vulnerability is published.

Advisory

Source description from Wordfence Intelligence, credited to iwd - Prysm Sec.

The ProfileGrid – User Profiles, Groups and Communities plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Insecure Direct Object Reference in all versions up to, and including, 5.9.7.2 via the 'pm_upload_image' and 'pm_upload_cover_image' AJAX actions. This is due to the update_user_meta() function being called outside of the user authorization check in public/partials/crop.php and public/partials/coverimg_crop.php. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to change any user's profile picture or cover image, including administrators.

Exploits & references

Proof-of-concept & detection

No public proof-of-concept or detection template is known for this vulnerability.

Advisories & patches

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High8.1Unauthenticated PHP Object Injection
≤6.0.0.4Update to 6.0.0.5
CVE-2026-103693
Medium6.5Authenticated (Subscriber+) SQL Injection
≤6.0.0.2Update to 6.0.0.3
CVE-2026-94663
Medium5.3Unauthenticated Insecure Direct Object Reference
≤6.0.0.2Update to 6.0.0.3
CVE-2026-62061
Medium4.3Authenticated (Subscriber+) Insecure Direct Object Reference
<5.9.9.8Update to 5.9.9.8
CVE-2026-16291
Medium5.3Missing Authorization
≤5.0.0.0Update to 6.0.0.0
CVE-2026-16290

Timeline

  1. CVE published

    Severity medium, CVSS 5.3

  2. Record last updated

Sources & licenses

Wordfence record
Vulnerability data
Wordfence Intelligence. Copyright 2012-2026 Defiant Inc. Licensed under the CC BY-SA 4.0.
CVE® identifiers
Copyright 1999-2026 The MITRE Corporation. Used under the CVE Program. CVE® is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation.
CVSS / CWE
National Vulnerability Database (NVD), shown unmodified. This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.
VulnCrest content
Summary, remediation guidance and page layout © VulnCrest. Not sourced from NVD.

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