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BuddyPress <= 1.9.1 — Stored Cross-Site Scripting

CVE-2014-1888Published · Updated

Action summary

Affected: ≤1.9.1Update to 1.9.2 or newer

All remediation steps
Watch plugin
Severity
Medium6.4
CVSS
6.4
CVSS 3.1 · CNA (Wordfence)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
What does this vector mean?
AV:N Attack vector
Network
AC:L Attack complexity
Low
PR:L Privileges required
Low
UI:N User interaction
None
S:C Scope
Changed
C:L Confidentiality
Low
I:L Integrity
Low
A:N Availability
None
Weakness
CWE-79 Cross-Site Scripting
Required access
Unknown
Exploit prediction (EPSS)
No score
CISA KEV
Not listed
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Am I affected?

BuddyPress buddypress

  1. Affected≤ 1.9.1
  2. Patched in1.9.2

Update to 1.9.2 or newer.

You are affected if you run ≤ 1.9.1. Version 1.9.2 and later are not affected by this issue.

  • Check your version: in wp-admin go to Plugins → Installed Plugins and read the version under BuddyPress.
  • No admin access? Run a passive check of your site. It reads public files only.

What to do

  1. Update to version 1.9.2, or a newer patched version
  2. Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
  3. Watch BuddyPress to get an email when the next vulnerability is published.

Advisory

Source description from Wordfence Intelligence, credited to Pietro Oliva.

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.

Exploits & references

Proof-of-concept & detection

No public proof-of-concept or detection template is known for this vulnerability.

Advisories & patches

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≤14.5.2Update to 14.5.3
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Medium4.3Insecure Direct Object Reference to Notifications Deletion
≤14.3.3Update to 14.3.4
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High7.5Authenticated (Subscriber+) PHP Object Injection via XProfile Field Data
≤14.5.0No patch available
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Medium4.3Insecure Direct Object Reference to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Private Messages Disclosure
≤14.4.0Update to 14.5.0
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Timeline

  1. CVE published

    Severity medium, CVSS 6.4

  2. Record last updated

Sources & licenses

Wordfence record
Vulnerability data
Wordfence Intelligence. [object Object] Licensed under the CC BY-SA 4.0.
CVE® identifiers
[object Object]. Used under the CVE Program. CVE® is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation.
CVSS / CWE
National Vulnerability Database (NVD), shown unmodified. This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.
VulnCrest content
Summary, remediation guidance and page layout © VulnCrest. Not sourced from NVD.

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