Medium severity4.3NVD Advisory· Published Feb 18, 2025· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2024-13740

Description

The ProfileGrid – User Profiles, Groups and Communities plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Insecure Direct Object Reference in all versions up to, and including, 5.9.4.2 via the pm_messenger_show_messages function due to missing validation on a user controlled key. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to read private conversations of other users.

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Affected products

Metagauss/Profilegrid
cpe:2.3:a:metagauss:profilegrid:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*
Range: <5.9.4.3
WordPress/Profilegridllm-fuzzy
Range: <=5.9.4.2
metagauss/ProfileGrid – User Profiles, Groups and Communitiesv5
Range: 0

Patches

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References

www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/c2a1b1a4-df72-4666-b116-882af4cd5796nvdThird Party Advisory
plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/profilegrid-user-profiles-groups-and-communities/tags/5.9.4.2/public/class-profile-magic-public.phpnvdProduct

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