CVE-2021-21389

Summary

CVECVE-2021-21389
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2021-03-26 21:15:00 UTC
Updated2021-04-01 15:45:00 UTC
DescriptionBuddyPress 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.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-863

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Buddypress Buddypress All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Version 7.2.1 · BuddyPress Codex MISC codex.buddypress.org
BuddyPress privilege escalation via REST API · Advisory · buddypress/BuddyPress · GitHub CONFIRM github.com
BuddyPress 7.2.1 Security Release · BuddyPress.org MISC buddypress.org
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis
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