CVE-2024-32774

ProfileGrid <= 5.8.2 - Bypass Group Members Limit

2024-04-22 00:00
Kyle Sanchez

Strategic Overview

Status
Patched in 5.8.3
Affected Plugin
ProfileGrid – User Profiles, Groups and Communities
Affected Version
<= 5.8.2
CVSS
5.3Medium
Weakness type
CWE-285 · Improper Authorization
CVE
CVE-2024-32774
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At a glance

CVE-2024-32774 is a medium-severity Improper Authorization vulnerability in the ProfileGrid WordPress plugin, affecting versions <= 5.8.2. It carries a CVSS score of 5.3 (reachable over the network; low attack complexity). Exploitation requires no authentication. The issue is fixed in version 5.8.3; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed April 2024, reported by Kyle Sanchez.

Vulnerability Overview

The ProfileGrid – User Profiles, Memberships, Groups and Communities plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to group limit bypass in all versions up to, and including, 5.8.2. This is due to the plugin not properly verifying the limits of a group before adding a member. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, to bypass group limits.

Technical Analysis

The vector marks this flaw as remotely reachable over the network, with low attack complexity — no special timing or configuration is needed, and no privileges on the target site, and no interaction from a victim user.

CWE-285: Improper Authorization

Reaching this weakness in ProfileGrid <= 5.8.2 takes a caller who can reach the endpoint. Improper authorization means a permission check exists but does not cover the case being exercised, so a caller who is allowed to do one thing is allowed to do a neighbouring thing as well.

A lower-privileged account performs an action reserved for a higher one, which on a multi-author or membership site means an ordinary user reaching administrative behaviour. For ProfileGrid the fix is 5.8.3: builds <= 5.8.2 are affected, anything from 5.8.3 onward is not.

Remediation

Update to version 5.8.3, or a newer patched version

How does WordSec protect against this?

Because it turns on account access, WordSec's login security is the relevant layer: role-based two-factor, captcha and brute-force limits raise the cost of getting the account this needs. None of that substitutes for the fix: ProfileGrid 5.8.3 closes this, and updating the plugin is the step that ends it.

  • Login Security
  • Alerts

External References

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-32774https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/0e1fce43-03c0-4863-bf0c-60a3c510a01dhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-32774

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