Limited Server-Side Request Forgery Vulnerability in ProfileGrid for WordPress
CVE-2024-13741

5.4MEDIUM

Key Information:

Vendor

WordPress
Status
Profilegrid – User Profiles, Groups And Communities
Vendor
CVE Published:
18 February 2025

What is CVE-2024-13741?

The ProfileGrid – User Profiles, Groups and Communities plugin for WordPress contains a vulnerability that allows authenticated users with Subscriber access or higher to exploit the pm_upload_image function. This flaw enables these users to generate server-side requests to arbitrary destinations, which can be manipulated to download and inspect images, or verify the presence of non-image files on both local and remote servers. This poses significant risks to web application integrity and user data security.

Affected Version(s)

ProfileGrid – User Profiles, Groups and Communities * <= 5.9.4.2

References

https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id...
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/profilegrid-us...
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/profilegrid-us...

CVSS V3.1

Score:
5.4
Severity:
MEDIUM
Confidentiality:
Low
Integrity:
Low
Availability:
Low
Attack Vector:
Network
Attack Complexity:
Low
Privileges Required:
Low
User Interaction:
None
Scope:
Unchanged

Timeline

  • Vulnerability published

  • Vulnerability Reserved

Credit

Tim Coen
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CVE-2024-13741 : Limited Server-Side Request Forgery Vulnerability in ProfileGrid for WordPress