BuddyPress <= 5.1.1 - Sensitive Information Disclosure

Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor
CVE CVE-2020-5244
CVSS High (7.5)
Publicly Published January 2, 2020
Last Updated January 22, 2024
Researcher Petter Walbø Johnsgård, Jacek Suski
Description

In BuddyPress before 5.1.2, requests to a certain REST API endpoint can result in private user data getting exposed. Authentication is not needed. This has been patched in version 5.1.2.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug buddypress (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 5.1.1
Patched Version
  • 5.1.2
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