BuddyPress - 7.0.0 - 7.2.0 - Insufficient Privilege De-escalation

Incorrect Privilege Assignment
CVE Not available
CVSS Medium (4.6)
Publicly Published March 16, 2021
Last Updated January 22, 2024
Description

The BuddyPress plugin for WordPress was vulnerable to authorization bypass due to a misconfiguration in how the plugin handled downgrading administrative level users to subscriber level in versions 7.0.0 - 7.2.0. This allowed subscriber level users to modify BuddyPress Member Types.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug buddypress (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • 7.0.0 - 7.2.1
Patched Version
  • 7.2.1
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