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Advisories for buddypress

CVE-2014-1888 MEDIUM

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the BuddyPress plugin before 1.9.2 for WordPress allows remote authenticated users to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the name field to groups/create/step/group-details. NOTE: this can be exploited without authentication by leveraging CVE-2014-1889.

CVSS 2.0

Severity: MEDIUM

Problem Type: CWE-79,

Products Affected

Vendor Product Version
buddypress buddypress 1.6.2
buddypress buddypress 1.6.5
buddypress buddypress 1.5.6
buddypress buddypress 1.6.4
buddypress buddypress 1.5.3.1
buddypress buddypress 1.5.7
buddypress buddypress 1.7.2
buddypress buddypress 1.8.1
buddypress buddypress 1.7.1
buddypress buddypress 1.8
buddypress buddypress 1.7
buddypress buddypress 1.5.2
buddypress buddypress 1.5.1
buddypress buddypress 1.5.3
buddypress buddypress 1.7.3
buddypress buddypress *
buddypress buddypress 1.5
buddypress buddypress 1.5.5
buddypress buddypress 1.5.4
buddypress buddypress 1.6.1
buddypress buddypress 1.6.3
buddypress buddypress 1.6
CVE-2014-1889 MEDIUM

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.

CVSS 2.0

Severity: MEDIUM

Problem Type: CWE-264,

Products Affected

Vendor Product Version
buddypress buddypress *
CVE-2017-6954 MEDIUM

An issue was discovered in includes/component.php in the BuddyPress Docs plugin before 1.9.3 for WordPress. It is possible for authenticated users to edit documents of other users without proper permissions.

CVSS 2.0

Severity: MEDIUM

Problem Type: CWE-269,

Products Affected

Vendor Product Version
buddypress buddypress *
CVE-2020-5244 MEDIUM

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.

CVSS 3.x

Source Score Severity Vector Exploitability Impact
security-advisories@github.com 8.0 HIGH CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N 1.6 5.8
nvd@nist.gov 7.5 HIGH CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N 3.9 3.6

CVSS 2.0

Severity: MEDIUM

Problem Type: CWE-284,CWE-200,

Products Affected

Vendor Product Version
buddypress buddypress *
CVE-2021-21389 HIGH

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.

CVSS 3.x

Source Score Severity Vector Exploitability Impact
security-advisories@github.com 8.1 HIGH CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N 2.8 5.2
nvd@nist.gov 8.8 HIGH CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H 2.8 5.9

CVSS 2.0

Severity: HIGH

Problem Type: CWE-863,

Products Affected

Vendor Product Version
buddypress buddypress *
CVE-2023-50880

Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') vulnerability in The BuddyPress Community BuddyPress allows Stored XSS.This issue affects BuddyPress: from n/a through 11.3.1.

CVSS 3.x

Source Score Severity Vector Exploitability Impact
nvd@nist.gov 5.4 MEDIUM CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N 2.3 2.7
audit@patchstack.com 6.5 MEDIUM CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L 2.3 3.7

Products Affected

Vendor Product Version
buddypress buddypress *
CVE-2024-10011

The BuddyPress plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Directory Traversal in all versions up to, and including, 14.1.0 via the id parameter. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to perform actions on files outside of the originally intended directory and enables file uploads to directories outside of the web root. Depending on server configuration it may be possible to upload files with double extensions.

CVSS 3.x

Source Score Severity Vector Exploitability Impact
security@wordfence.com 8.1 HIGH CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N 2.8 5.2

Products Affected

Vendor Product Version
buddypress buddypress *
CVE-2024-3974

The BuddyPress plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the ‘user_name’ parameter in versions up to, and including, 12.4.0 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level permissions and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.

CVSS 3.x

Source Score Severity Vector Exploitability Impact
security@wordfence.com 6.4 MEDIUM CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N 3.1 2.7

Products Affected

Vendor Product Version
buddypress buddypress *
CVE-2024-4892

The BuddyPress plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the ‘display_name’ parameter in versions up to, and including, 12.4.1 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level permissions and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.

CVSS 3.x

Source Score Severity Vector Exploitability Impact
security@wordfence.com 6.4 MEDIUM CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N 3.1 2.7

Products Affected

Vendor Product Version
buddypress buddypress *
CVE-2025-23798

Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') vulnerability in ElbowRobo Mass Messaging in BuddyPress mass-messaging-in-buddypress allows Reflected XSS.This issue affects Mass Messaging in BuddyPress: from n/a through <= 2.2.1.

CVSS 3.x

Source Score Severity Vector Exploitability Impact
audit@patchstack.com 7.1 HIGH CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L 2.8 3.7
134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0 6.5 MEDIUM CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N 3.9 2.5

Products Affected

Vendor Product Version
buddypress buddypress *