CVE-2021-21389 (GCVE-0-2021-21389)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2021-03-26 20:15 – Updated: 2024-08-03 18:09
VLAI?
Title
BuddyPress privilege escalation via REST API
Summary
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.
Severity ?
8.1 (High)
CWE
- CWE-863 - Incorrect Authorization
Assigner
References
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Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | ||
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| buddypress | BuddyPress |
Affected:
>= 5.0.0, < 7.2.1
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Nomenclature
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- Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
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- Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
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