ProfileGrid <= 6.0.0.2 - Cross-Site Request Forgery to Account Takeover via Profile Edit Form
- ID
- WPSEC-2026-0057
- Plugin
- ProfileGrid – User Profiles, Groups and Communities (profilegrid-user-profiles-groups-and-communities)
- Affected
- all versions before 6.0.0.3
- Remediation
- Update to 6.0.0.3 or later.
- CVSS 3.1
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Weakness
- CWE-352
- Usage
- Plugin Low · Affected versions Low among sites WPSec scans, 2026-10-22
- Attack surface
- ProfileGrid on WPSec AttackSurface
- Fix released
- Published
Description
The User Profiles, Groups and Communities plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in all versions up to, and including, 6.0.0.2. This is due to missing nonce validation on the edit_profile, upload_image and remove_image handlers of the front-end profile page (public/partials/profile-magic-profile.php), while the profile update also wrote a submitted user_email value through wp_update_user without re-verification. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to change the email address of a logged-in user who belongs to a ProfileGrid group and then reset that user's password to take over the account, or to clear arbitrary user meta on the victim's account, via a forged request granted they can trick the user into performing an action such as clicking on a link.
References
- https://wpsec.com/vuln/WPSEC-2026-0057/
- https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/profilegrid-user-profiles-groups-and-communities/tags/6.0.0.3/
- https://wordpress.org/plugins/profilegrid-user-profiles-groups-and-communities/
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