CVE-2021-21389

BuddyPress privilege escalation via REST API

Published: Mar 26, 2021Updated: Nov 21, 2024 Sources: CVE List NVD GHSACWE-863

8.1HIGH

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.

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CVSS Vector Breakdown

Exploitability

AV:NAttack Vector

Network

AC:LAttack Complexity

Low

PR:LPrivileges Required

Low

UI:NUser Interaction

None

Scope

S:UScope

Unchanged

Impact

C:HConfidentiality

High

I:HIntegrity

High

A:NAvailability

None

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Weaknesses

CWE-863

Affected Products

buddypress

oss-project

BuddyPressMixed

Web & CMS Plugins / wordpress-plugin

Packagist

package-ecosystem

buddypress/buddypress

OSS Libraries

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Exploitability

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MITRE ATT&CK

2 techniques

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References

https://github.com/buddypress/BuddyPress/security/advisories/GHSA-m6j4-8r7p-wpp3

github.com

https://buddypress.org/2021/03/buddypress-7-2-1-security-release/

buddypress.org

https://codex.buddypress.org/releases/version-7-2-1/

codex.buddypress.org

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