CVE-2026-4610

medium

Description

The ProfileGrid – User Profiles, Groups and Communities plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'pm_author_message' parameter in the pm_send_message_to_author function in all versions up to, and including, 5.9.9.2 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page. The vulnerability was partially patched in version 5.9.8.5.

References

https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/34c64a8b-32ad-4349-b593-933fc057d1a6?source=cve

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3538301/

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/profilegrid-user-profiles-groups-and-communities/trunk/public/class-profile-magic-public.php#L3216

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/profilegrid-user-profiles-groups-and-communities/trunk/public/class-profile-magic-public.php#L3211

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/profilegrid-user-profiles-groups-and-communities/trunk/includes/class-profile-magic-request.php#L6802

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/profilegrid-user-profiles-groups-and-communities/trunk/includes/class-profile-magic-request.php#L6790

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2026-06-23

Updated: 2026-06-23

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 5.5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:N

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 6.4

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00201