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BuddyPress privilege escalation via REST API
High severity
GitHub Reviewed
Published
Mar 19, 2021
in
buddypress/buddypress
•
Updated Feb 1, 2023
Impact
It's possible for a non-privileged, regular user to obtain administrator rights by exploiting an issue in the BuddyPress REST API members endpoint.
Patches
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.
References
https://buddypress.org/2021/03/buddypress-7-2-1-security-release/
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