VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE
CVE-2021-21389
CVSS score8.1 HIGH
EPSS probability14.81%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2021-03-26
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
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.
Weakness classification
- security-advisories@github.com: CWE-863
Primary references
- security-advisories@github.com — Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
- security-advisories@github.com — Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
- security-advisories@github.com — Third Party Advisory
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 — Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 — Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 — Third Party Advisory