🛡️ CVE-2026-4609

🟠 CVSS 7.1 — High ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-862 NVD
7.1
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

The ProfileGrid – User Profiles, Groups and Communities plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized access due to a missing capability check on the pm_invite_user function in all versions up to, and including, 5.9.8.4. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to add themselves or any registered user to any ProfileGrid group, including closed and paid groups, bypassing all authorization and payment gates.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs low-level privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality low, integrity high, availability none.

Weakness class

CVE-2026-4609 is classified as CWE-862: Missing Authorization. No authorisation check is performed before carrying out a restricted action.

Affected software

CVE-2026-4609 is recorded against 1 package.

  • unknown

Timeline and source

Published on 13 May 2026 and last revised on 17 June 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from NVD.

References

plugins.trac.wordpress.org
plugins.trac.wordpress.org
plugins.trac.wordpress.org
www.wordfence.com

Details

Severity HIGH
CVSS Score 7.1
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:N
CWE CWE-862
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2026-05-13
Updated 2026-08-11
Modified 2026-06-17
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
unknown — —

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