Vulnerabilities and security researches forbuddypress buddypress

Jun 06, 2024

CVE, Research URL: CVE-2012-2109
Home page URL: Security reports for BuddyPress
Application: BuddyPress
Date: Sep 05, 2012
Research Description: SQL injection vulnerability in wp-load.php in the BuddyPress plugin 1.5.x before 1.5.5 of WordPress allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary SQL commands via the page parameter in an activity_widget_filter action.
Affected versions: Min 5.0.0, max 6.4.0.
Status: vulnerable

CVE, Research URL: CVE-2014-1889
Home page URL: Security reports for BuddyPress
Application: BuddyPress
Date: Apr 10, 2018
Research Description: The Group creation process in the Buddypress plugin before 1.9.2 for WordPress allows remote authenticated users to gain control of arbitrary groups by leveraging a missing permissions check.
Affected versions: max 1.9.2.
Status: vulnerable

CVE, Research URL: CVE-2014-1888
Home page URL: Security reports for BuddyPress
Application: BuddyPress
Date: Mar 01, 2014
Research Description: Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the BuddyPress plugin before 1.9.2 for WordPress allows remote authenticated users to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the name field to groups/create/step/group-details. NOTE: this can be exploited without authentication by leveraging CVE-2014-1889.
Affected versions: max 1.9.2.
Status: vulnerable

CVE, Research URL: CVE-2021-21389
Home page URL: Security reports for BuddyPress
Application: BuddyPress
Date: Mar 27, 2021
Research Description: 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.
Affected versions: Min 5.0.0, max 7.2.0.
Status: vulnerable

CVE, Research URL: CVE-2020-5244
Home page URL: Security reports for BuddyPress
Application: BuddyPress
Date: Feb 24, 2020
Research Description: In BuddyPress before 5.1.2, requests to a certain REST API endpoint can result in private user data getting exposed. Authentication is not needed. This has been patched in version 5.1.2.
Affected versions: max 2.3.5.
Status: vulnerable

CVE, Research URL: CVE-2023-50880
Home page URL: Security reports for BuddyPress
Application: BuddyPress
Date: Dec 29, 2023
Research Description: Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') vulnerability in The BuddyPress Community BuddyPress allows Stored XSS.This issue affects BuddyPress: from n/a through 11.3.1.
Affected versions: max 11.3.2.
Status: vulnerable

CVE, Research URL: CVE-2024-3974
Home page URL: Security reports for BuddyPress
Application: BuddyPress
Date: May 14, 2024
Research Description: The BuddyPress plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the ‘user_name’ parameter in versions up to, and including, 12.4.0 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 versions: max 12.4.1.
Status: vulnerable

Jun 13, 2024

CVE, Research URL: CVE-2024-4892
Home page URL: Security reports for BuddyPress
Application: BuddyPress
Date: Jun 12, 2024
Research Description: 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 versions: max 12.5.1.
Status: vulnerable

Oct 26, 2024

CVE, Research URL: CVE-2024-10011
Home page URL: Security reports for BuddyPress
Application: BuddyPress
Date: Oct 25, 2024
Research Description: The BuddyPress plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Directory Traversal in all versions up to, and including, 14.1.0 via the id parameter. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to perform actions on files outside of the originally intended directory and enables file uploads to directories outside of the web root. Depending on server configuration it may be possible to upload files with double extensions. This vulnerability only affects Windows.
Affected versions: max 14.2.1.
Status: vulnerable

Nov 10, 2025

CVE, Research URL: CVE-2025-62022
Home page URL: Security reports for BuddyPress
Application: BuddyPress
Date: Oct 22, 2025
Research Description: Missing Authorization vulnerability in BuddyPress BuddyPress buddypress.This issue affects BuddyPress: from n/a through <= 14.3.4.
Affected versions: max 14.4.0.
Status: vulnerable