CVE-2019-15873

HIGH 8.8CVE-2019-15873 · Published 03/09/2019 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2019-15873 is a HIGH (CVSS 8.8) vulnerability affecting profilegrid (metagauss).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 3.9%, higher than 90.2% of all vulnerabilities.
Fix: update to 2.8.6 or later.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
profilegrid metagauss	`< 2.8.6`	`2.8.6`

Description

The profilegrid-user-profiles-groups-and-communities plugin before 2.8.6 for WordPress has remote code execution via an wp-admin/admin-ajax.php request with the action=pm_template_preview&html=<?php substring followed by PHP code.

References

wordpress.org/plugins/profilegrid-user-profiles-groups-and-communities · Release Notes
wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/9086 · Exploit

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Package

Affected versions

Patched versions

profilegrid

metagauss

< 2.8.6

2.8.6

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