CVE-2026-12073 PUBLISHED

ProfileGrid - User Profiles, Groups and Communities <= 5.9.9.5 - Unauthenticated Privilege Escalation via Email Overwrite

Assigner: Wordfence
Reserved: 12.06.2026 Published: 30.06.2026 Updated: 30.06.2026

The ProfileGrid – User Profiles, Groups and Communities plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation via account takeover in all versions up to, and including, 5.9.9.5. This is due to the plugin not validating a user_login on registration forms that don't contain this parameter, and not properly handling the error messages. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to change email address of user account with ID=1 (usually an administrator), and leverage that to reset the user's password and gain access to their account.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS Score: 9.8

Product Status

Vendor metagauss
Product ProfileGrid – User Profiles, Groups and Communities
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 0 to 5.9.9.5 (incl.)

Credits

  • Ivan Kuzymchak finder

References

Problem Types

  • CWE-639 Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key CWE