Stored Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability in BuddyPress Plugin for WordPress

CVE-2024-4892

6.4MEDIUM

Key Information

Vendor: Buddypress
Status: Buddypress
Vendor: CVE Published:; 12 June 2024

Summary

The BuddyPress plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the ‘display_name’ 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

CVSS V3.1

Score:

6.4

Severity:

MEDIUM

Confidentiality:

Low

Integrity:

Low

Availability:

None

Attack Vector:

Network

Attack Complexity:

Low

Privileges Required:

Low

User Interaction:

None

Scope:

Changed

Timeline

Vulnerability published.
Jun 12, 2024
Disclosed
Jun 11, 2024
Vulnerability Reserved.
May 15, 2024

Collectors

NVD DatabaseMitre Database

Credit

wesley