Stored Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability in BuddyPress Plugin for WordPress
CVE-2024-4892

5.4MEDIUM

Key Information:

Vendor

Wordpress
Status
Buddypress
Vendor
CVE Published:
12 June 2024

What is CVE-2024-4892?

The BuddyPress plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the ā€˜display_nameā€™ parameter in versions up to, and including, 12.4.1 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level permissions and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.

Affected Version(s)

BuddyPress * <= 12.5.0

References

https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id...
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/buddypress/tag...
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3100815/budd...

CVSS V3.1

Score:
5.4
Severity:
MEDIUM
Confidentiality:
Low
Integrity:
Low
Availability:
Low
Attack Vector:
Network
Attack Complexity:
Low
Privileges Required:
Low
User Interaction:
Required
Scope:
Changed

Timeline

  • Vulnerability published

  • Vulnerability Reserved

Credit

wesley
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