CVE-2021-21389CWE-863

BuddyPress privilege escalation via REST API

High · published March 26, 2021

CVSS v3.1

8.1

EPSS

14%

Percentile

96.4

In the wild

Unconfirmed

What it is

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.

The record

Technical detail

CVSS v3.1: 8.1 · HIGH
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
CVSS v4.0: Not supplied
EPSS: 0.13521 · 96.4th percentile
Weakness: CWE-863 · Incorrect Authorization
Published: 2021-03-26T20:15Z

EPSS history

Timeline

26 MAR 20:15Z
BuddyPress privilege escalation via REST API
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