Buddyboss Platform <= 2.5.91 - Insecure Direct Object Reference to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Comment on Private Post

Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key
CVE CVE-2024-4886
CVSS Medium (4.3)
Publicly Published May 15, 2024
Last Updated August 9, 2024
Researcher Faris Krivic
Description

The Buddyboss Platform plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Insecure Direct Object Reference in all versions up to, and including, 2.5.91 via the new_activity_comment AJAX action due to missing validation on a user controlled key. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to make comments on private posts.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug buddyboss-platform (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 2.5.91
Patched Version
  • 2.6.0
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