BuddyPress 5.0.0-7.2.0 - Privilege Escalation via REST API

Incorrect Authorization
CVE CVE-2021-21389
CVSS High (8.8)
Publicly Published March 16, 2021
Last Updated January 22, 2024
Researcher Kien
Description

BuddyPress is an open source WordPress plugin to build a community site. In releases of BuddyPress from 5.0.0 before 7.2.1 it's possible for a non-privileged, regular user to obtain administrator rights by exploiting an issue in the REST API members endpoint. 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

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug buddypress (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • 5.0.0 - 7.2.0
Patched Version
  • 7.2.1
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