CVSS 3.1
8.8 highCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HCVE-2021-21389
High (8.8) in buddypress buddypress. EPSS 15% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
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.
Severity
- EPSS
- 15% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 96% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-863
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- buddypress:buddypress
References
- https://buddypress.org/2021/03/buddypress-7-2-1-security-release/
- https://codex.buddypress.org/releases/version-7-2-1/
- https://github.com/buddypress/BuddyPress/security/advisories/GHSA-m6j4-8r7p-wpp3
- https://buddypress.org/2021/03/buddypress-7-2-1-security-release/
- https://codex.buddypress.org/releases/version-7-2-1/