BuddyPress <= 1.9.1 - Authorization Bypass

Improper Authentication
CVE CVE-2014-1889
CVSS Medium (6.5)
Publicly Published February 5, 2014
Last Updated January 22, 2024
Researcher Pietro Oliva
Description

The Group creation process in the Buddypress plugin before 1.9.2 for WordPress allows remote authenticated users to gain control of arbitrary groups by leveraging a missing permissions check. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to modify the name, description, avatar and settings of groups.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug buddypress (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 1.9.2
Patched Version
  • 1.9.2
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