CVE-2021-21389 — BuddyPress privilege escalation via REST API
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 ob…
Published: 2021-03-26 · CVSS: 8.1 · CVSS 3.1
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.
Source: CVE Program · Revision 8b16575c39f1e1810c5e863010da073d2d3285e7