Vulnerability · Published Jan 18, 2022 · Assigned by Wordfence

CVE-2022-0233ProfileGrid – User Profiles, Memberships, Groups and Communities <= 4.7.4 Authenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting

Medium 6.4

In plain English

A medium-severity cross-site scripting in ProfileGrid – User Profiles, Memberships, Groups and Communities from ProfileGrid – User Profiles, Memberships, Groups and Communities. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.9% (higher than 60% of all known vulnerabilities).

Severity (CVSS 3.1)6.4Medium

Exploit odds (30 days)0.9%top 40.2% of all CVEs

Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: none

Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

The ProfileGrid – User Profiles, Memberships, Groups and Communities WordPress plugin is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting due to insufficient escaping via the pm_user_avatar and pm_cover_image parameters found in the ~/admin/class-profile-magic-admin.php file which allows attackers with authenticated user access, such as subscribers, to inject arbitrary web scripts into their profile, in versions up to and including 1.2.7.

Affected products (as reported)

Vendor	Product	Versions
ProfileGrid – User Profiles, Memberships, Groups and Communities	ProfileGrid – User Profiles, Memberships, Groups and Communities	4.7.4 – through 4.7.4

Weakness: CWE-79 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

References

https://github.com/BigTiger2020/2022/blob/main/ProfileGrid%20Xss.md x_refsource_MISC
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/profilegrid-user-profiles-groups-and-communities/tags/4.7.4/admin/class-profile-magic-admin.php#L961 x_refsource_MISC
https://www.wordfence.com/vulnerability-advisories/#CVE-2022-0233 x_refsource_MISC