CVE-2021-21389: BuddyPress privilege escalation via REST API
buddypress · BuddyPress
Affected: BuddyPress · Exploitation: check available, not yet exploited
Not in CyberSIXT coverage yet: no article names this CVE. This page shows the public record.
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DescriptionCVE.org
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.
Affected products1
From the CVE record. A product or version that is not listed is unknown, not unaffected.
- buddypress · BuddyPress>= 5.0.0, < 7.2.1
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- Exploitation
- Check available, not yet exploited. A public nuclei template can confirm it on a system you are authorised to test.
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Public check
- BuddyPress REST API <7.2.1 - Privilege Escalation/Remote Code Execution · nuclei template in projectdiscovery/nuclei-templates
- Vendor
- buddypress
- Published
- March 2021
- Bounty reports
- 1 disclosed on HackerOne
Disclosed bug bounty reports about CVE-2021-21389
The reports on HackerOne that name this CVE, with HackerOne's own outcome. Titles and metadata only.
- Privilege Escalation via REST API to Administrator leads to RCEWordPress · 2021 · high severityValid
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