Buddypress Force Password Change <= 0.1 - Authenticated (Subscriber+) Account Takeover via Password Update

Unverified Password Change
CVE CVE-2025-3793
CVSS Medium (4.2)
Publicly Published April 23, 2025
Last Updated April 24, 2025
Researcher kr0d
Description

The Buddypress Force Password Change plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to authenticated account takeover due to the plugin not properly validating a user's identity prior to updating their password through the 'bp_force_password_ajax' function in all versions up to, and including, 0.1. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above and under certain prerequisites, to change arbitrary user's passwords, including administrators, and leverage that to gain access to their accounts.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug buddy-press-force-password-change (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? No
Affected Version
  • <= 0.1
Patched Version
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