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

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.4 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2022-01-18 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-79

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

• metagauss ProfileGrid – User Profiles, Groups and Communities: through 4.7.4

References

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

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