CVE-2024-6411 Vulnerability Details

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CVE-2024-6411 Metadata Quick Info

CVE Published: 10/07/2024 | CVE Updated: 01/08/2024 | CVE Year: 2024
Source: Wordfence | Vendor: metagauss | Product: ProfileGrid – User Profiles, Groups and Communities
Status : PUBLISHED

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CVE-2024-6411 Description

The ProfileGrid – User Profiles, Groups and Communities plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation in all versions up to, and including, 5.8.9. This is due to a lack of validation on user-supplied data in the \'pm_upload_image\' AJAX action. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to update their user capabilities to Administrator.

Metrics

CVSS Version: 3.1 | Base Score: 8.8 HIGH
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

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Weakness Enumeration (CWE)

CWE-ID:
CWE Name: CWE-269 Improper Privilege Management
Source: metagauss

Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)

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Source: NVD (National Vulnerability Database).