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High EPSS: 0.9334% (0.998 Percentile) EPSS:

BuddyPress privilege escalation via REST API

Affected Packages Affected Versions Fixed Versions
packagist:buddypress/buddypress >= 5.0.0, < 7.2.1 7.2.1
2 Dependent packages
7 Dependent repositories
1,945 Downloads total

Affected Version Ranges

All affected versions

5.0.0, 5.1.0, 5.1.1, 5.1.2, 5.2.0, 5.2.1, 5.2.2, 6.0.0, 6.1.0, 6.2.0, 6.3.0, 6.4.0, 6.4.2, 6.4.3, 7.0.0, 7.1.0, 7.2.0

All unaffected versions

2.2.0, 2.2.1, 2.2.2, 2.2.3, 2.2.4, 2.2.5, 2.2.6, 2.3.0, 2.3.1, 2.3.2, 2.3.3, 2.3.4, 2.3.5, 2.3.6, 2.3.7, 2.4.0, 2.4.2, 2.4.3, 2.4.4, 2.4.5, 2.5.0, 2.5.1, 2.5.2, 2.5.3, 2.5.4, 2.5.5, 2.6.0, 2.6.1, 2.6.2, 2.6.3, 2.6.4, 2.7.0, 2.7.1, 2.7.2, 2.7.3, 2.7.4, 2.7.5, 2.8.0, 2.8.1, 2.8.2, 2.9.0, 2.9.1, 2.9.2, 2.9.3, 2.9.4, 3.0.0, 3.1.0, 3.2.0, 3.2.1, 4.0.0, 4.1.0, 4.2.0, 4.3.0, 4.4.0, 4.4.1, 7.2.1, 7.3.0, 7.3.2, 7.3.3, 7.3.4, 8.0.0, 8.0.2, 8.0.3, 8.0.4, 9.0.0, 9.1.1, 9.2.0, 9.2.1, 9.2.2, 9.2.3, 9.2.4, 10.0.0, 10.1.0, 10.2.0, 10.3.0, 10.4.0, 10.5.0, 10.6.0, 10.6.1, 10.6.2, 10.6.3, 10.6.4, 11.0.0, 11.1.0, 11.2.0, 11.3.1, 11.3.2, 11.4.0, 11.4.1, 11.4.2, 11.4.3, 11.4.4, 12.0.0, 12.1.1, 12.2.0, 12.3.0, 12.4.0, 12.4.1, 12.5.0, 12.5.1, 12.5.2, 12.5.3, 14.0.0, 14.1.0, 14.2.1, 14.3.1, 14.3.3, 14.3.4

Impact

It's possible for a non-privileged, regular user to obtain administrator rights by exploiting an issue in the BuddyPress REST API members endpoint.

Patches

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.

References

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

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