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CVE-2021-21389

BuddyPress 5.0.0-7.2.0 - Privilege Escalation via REST API

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.
Mögliche Gegenmaßnahme
BuddyPress: Update to version 7.2.1, or a newer patched version
Weitere Schwachstelleninformationen
SystemWordPress Plugin
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Produkt BuddyPress
Version 5.0.0-7.2.0
Daten sind bereitgestellt durch National Vulnerability Database (NVD)
Buddypress ≫ Buddypress SwPlatformwordpress Version >= 5.0.0 < 7.2.1
Zu dieser CVE wurde keine CISA KEV oder CERT.AT-Warnung gefunden.
EPSS Metriken
Typ Quelle Score Percentile
EPSS FIRST.org 93.64% 0.998
CVSS Metriken
Quelle Base Score Exploit Score Impact Score Vector String
nvd@nist.gov 8.8 2.8 5.9
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
nvd@nist.gov 9 8 10
AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C
security-advisories@github.com 8.1 2.8 5.2
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
CWE-863 Incorrect Authorization

The product performs an authorization check when an actor attempts to access a resource or perform an action, but it does not correctly perform the check.