CVE-2024-13740

The ProfileGrid – User Profiles, Groups and Communities plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Insecure Direct Object Reference in all versions up to, and including, 5.9.4.2 via the pm_messenger_show_messages function due to missing validation on a user controlled key. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to read private conversations of other users.

Score

CVSS 3.1 4.3 Medium

Status

Analyzed - security@wordfence.com

Published

2025-02-18

Last modified

2026-04-08

Weaknesses

CWE-639

Affected products

• Groups And Communities (Metagauss)
• Profilegrid (Metagauss)
• Profilegrid User Profiles (Metagauss)

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/profilegrid-user-profiles-groups-and-communities/tags/5.9.4.2/public/class-p…
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/c2a1b1a4-df72-4666-b116-882af4cd5796?source=cve