CVE-2026-53673

BuddyPress 14.4.0 contains an insecure direct object reference vulnerability in the messages REST API that allows authenticated attackers to access arbitrary private message threads by supplying a user_id parameter in the request. Attackers can pass another user's identifier to the get_item_permissions_check method, which validates the supplied user_id instead of the logged-in user and is reused by the update and delete handlers, to read, reply to, or delete any user's private messages.

CVSS 4.0

8.6CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

CVSS 3.1

8.1CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

EPSS

0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 30% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-25)

CWE

CWE-639

Published

2026-06-10

Modified

2026-10-08

Record from

the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

References

• https://buddypress.org/
• https://wordpress.org/plugins/buddypress/
• https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/buddypress-private-message-idor-via-rest-api-user-id-parameter

Check your stackJSON