BuddyPress, CVE-2024-4892

CVE, Research URL: CVE-2024-4892
Home page URL: Security reports for BuddyPress
Application: BuddyPress
Published on: 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