Authentication Bypass Using an Alternate Path or Channel vulnerability in Metagauss ProfileGrid profilegrid-user-profiles-groups-and-communities allows Password Recovery Exploitation.This issue affects ProfileGrid : from n/a through <= 5.9.9.6.
CVE-2026-57697
Score 7.5 from GitHub Security Advisory (severity: HIGH) published 2026-07-13. a secondary CVSS source baseline 7.5; sources differ by 0.0.
- High severity, but no confirmed exploitation yet
No vendor fix yet — apply a workaround or compensating control (WAF / firewall / segmentation) and watch for a patch.
- CVSS v3
- 7.5
- EG Score
- 7.5(high)
- EG Risk
- 49(Track)EG Risk 49/100SSVC: Track
EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score: it fuses intrinsic severity with real-world exploitation and automatability so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner. Distinct from the 0–10 EG Score (severity).
How it’s computedSeverity75% × 45%Exploitation0% × 40%Automatability100% × 15%Action: Routine — remediate on your standard cadence. - EPSS PROB
- 0%
- EPSS %ILE
- 24%
- KEV
- Not listed
Published
July 13, 2026
Last Modified
July 13, 2026
Advisory Details (1)
Auto-updated Jul 13, 2026Broken Authentication in WordPress ProfileGrid Plugin - Patchstack
https://patchstack.com/database/Wordpress/Plugin/profilegrid-user-profiles-groups-and-communities/vulnerability/wordpress-profilegrid-plugin-5-9-9-6-broken-authentication-vulnerability?_s_id=cveVendor Advisories for CVE-2026-57697(1)
These vendors published their own advisory mentioning this CVE — often with vendor-specific remediation steps + affected product lists not in NVD.
Weakness Classification(1)
MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.
Data Freshness Timeline
(refreshed 20× in last 7d / 39× in last 30d)
Each row is a source pipeline that fetched or updated this CVE on that date, with what changed. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed it from the CNA feed. Most recent first.
- 2026-07-27 22:56 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-07-27 22:56 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-07-27 14:14 UTCEPSS rescore
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- 2026-07-26 23:29 UTCEG score recompute
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- 2026-07-26 11:56 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-07-26 11:56 UTCGHSA enrichment
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- 2026-07-23 03:20 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-07-22 14:08 UTCEPSS rescore
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- 2026-07-17 06:22 UTCGHSA enrichment
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- 2026-07-16 17:03 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-07-16 07:16 UTCGHSA enrichment
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- 2026-07-14 20:36 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-07-14 09:03 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-07-13 22:31 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-07-13 21:30 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-07-13 09:58 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-07-13 09:52 UTCMITRE cvelistV5first tracked
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