CVE-2021-21389
Published Mar 26, 2021
Last updated 4 years ago
Overview
- 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.
- Source
- security-advisories@github.com
- NVD status
- Analyzed
Social media
- Hype score
- Not currently trending
Risk scores
CVSS 3.1
- Type
- Primary
- Base score
- 8.8
- Impact score
- 5.9
- Exploitability score
- 2.8
- Vector string
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Severity
- HIGH
CVSS 2.0
- Type
- Primary
- Base score
- 9
- Impact score
- 10
- Exploitability score
- 8
- Vector string
- AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C
Weaknesses
- security-advisories@github.com
- CWE-863
Configurations
[
{
"nodes": [
{
"negate": false,
"cpeMatch": [
{
"criteria": "cpe:2.3:a:buddypress:buddypress:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*",
"vulnerable": true,
"matchCriteriaId": "22E0A24D-C677-49B3-AD8D-4D5F342F1CBF",
"versionEndExcluding": "7.2.1",
"versionStartIncluding": "5.0.0"
}
],
"operator": "OR"
}
]
}
]