CVE-2026-25417
Official description Straight from the sourceThe vendor's or NVD's own wording, published unedited. Authoritative, but often terse — it says what broke, rarely what to do.
NVD · uneditedImproper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') vulnerability in Metagauss ProfileGrid profilegrid-user-profiles-groups-and-communities allows Stored XSS.This issue affects ProfileGrid : from n/a through <= 5.9.8.1.
Technical summary Written by usOur analysis, written from the advisory, the CVSS vector and the affected-version data. It adds context the advisory leaves out, and never invents facts that are not in the source.
dbcve analysis · moderate confidenceStored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the ProfileGrid WordPress plugin allows authenticated attackers to inject malicious JavaScript scripts into user profile fields that are later rendered without proper sanitization or output encoding, executing in the browsers of other users viewing those profiles.
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CVSS breakdown How the score is builtThe industry scoring standard. It rates how the flaw is reached, what it takes to exploit, and what an attacker gains — the score is derived from those, not the other way round.
From the vector- Attack vector
- Network
- Complexity
- Low
- Privileges
- Low
- User interaction
- Required
- Scope
- Changed
- Confidentiality
- Low
- Integrity
- Low
- Availability
- Low
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L
Am I affected? How to checkSteps we derive from the advisory and the affected-version data, so you can decide whether this CVE reaches your setup. They are a guide, not a scan — your own configuration is the authority.
dbcve checksWork through these to decide whether this CVE applies to you.
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Confirm ProfileGrid plugin is installedIn WordPress admin, go to Plugins > Installed Plugins and look for 'ProfileGrid' in the list. Note whether it is activated.Affected if ProfileGrid plugin is installed and active
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Identify the installed ProfileGrid versionIn Plugins list, click on 'ProfileGrid' to view plugin details, or check the plugin file header in /wp-content/plugins/profilegrid/ folder for the version number.Affected if Version is within the affected range (compare to the version that fixed this vulnerability)
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Verify user profiles are publicly viewableNavigate to a user profile page on the site (typically at /profile/ or /author/username/) while logged out or as a different user. Confirm profile fields are rendered and visible.Affected if User profiles are accessible to other users or visitors
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Inspect profile field output for unescaped contentView the HTML source of a rendered user profile page. Check if special characters in profile fields (like < > " ') are properly encoded as HTML entities (e.g., < > " ').Affected if Raw HTML or JavaScript tags appear unescaped in the page source
If ProfileGrid is active, the affected version is installed, and user profiles are viewable by others, the environment may be vulnerable to stored XSS attacks.
Generated from the published advisory. Verify against your own configuration.
Remediation Closing itWhat it takes to close this. Where a vendor fix exists we point at it; where none exists we say so plainly, and can build one. Effort estimates are scoped from the advisory, not from your codebase.
From vendor dataApply proper input validation and output escaping using WordPress sanitization functions (such as sanitize_text_field, esc_html, esc_attr) to all user-supplied data before storage and before display in web pages.
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