CVE-2021-21389

BuddyPress privilege escalation via REST API

Published Mar 26, 2021 CVSS 3.1 · 8.1 High EPSS 14.8% KEV · Not listed
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.

Remediation

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Advisories

Source ID Title
Github GHSA Github GHSA GHSA-m6j4-8r7p-wpp3 BuddyPress privilege escalation via REST API
History

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Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
GitHub_M
Published
Updated
Aug 3, 2024, 6:09 PM
Reserved
Dec 22, 2020, 12:00 AM
Status
Modified
Published
Mar 26, 2021, 9:15 PM
Modified
Jun 17, 2026, 3:35 AM