GHSA-m6j4-8r7p-wpp3HighCVSS 8.1

BuddyPress privilege escalation via REST API

Published
October 6, 2021
Last Modified
February 1, 2023

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

CVE-2021-21389 →

📋 Description

Impact

It's possible for a non-privileged, regular user to obtain administrator rights by exploiting an issue in the BuddyPress REST API members endpoint.

Patches

The vulnerability has been fixed in BuddyPress 7.2.1. Existing installations of the plugin should be updated to this version to mitigate the issue.

References

https://buddypress.org/2021/03/buddypress-7-2-1-security-release/

For more information

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🎯 Affected products1

  • composer/buddypress/buddypress:>= 5.0.0, < 7.2.1

🔗 References (5)