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BP Profile Search <= 5.9 — Unauthenticated Local File Inclusion to Remote Code Execution via 'bps_directory' Cookie 'ajax_template' Value

CVE-2026-104995Published · Updated

Action summary

Affected: ≤5.9Update to 6.0 or newer

All remediation steps
Watch plugin
Severity
High8.1
CVSS
8.1
CVSS 3.1 · CNA (Wordfence)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
What does this vector mean?
AV:N Attack vector
Network
AC:H Attack complexity
High
PR:N Privileges required
None
UI:N User interaction
None
S:U Scope
Unchanged
C:H Confidentiality
High
I:H Integrity
High
A:H Availability
High
Weakness
CWE-98 Local File Inclusion
Required access
No account needed
Exploit prediction (EPSS)
No score
CISA KEV
Not listed
On this page8

Am I affected?

BP Profile Search bp-profile-search

  1. Affected≤ 5.9
  2. Patched in6.0

Update to 6.0 or newer.

You are affected if you run ≤ 5.9. Version 6.0 and later are not affected by this issue.

  • Check your version: in wp-admin go to Plugins → Installed Plugins and read the version under BP Profile Search.
  • No admin access? Run a passive check of your site. It reads public files only.
  • No account is needed to exploit this. Treat any exposed site on an affected version as at risk.

What to do

  1. Update to version 6.0, or a newer patched version
  2. Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
  3. Watch BP Profile Search to get an email when the next vulnerability is published.

Advisory

Source description from Wordfence Intelligence, credited to snr.

The BP Profile Search plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Local File Inclusion in versions up to, and including, 5.9 via the 'ajax_template' value parsed from the client-controlled 'bps_directory' cookie during BuddyPress AJAX directory requests. The bps_directory_ajax() filter (hooked onto bp_legacy_object_template_path and bp_nouveau_object_template_path) reads the cookie, applies only a referer-derived 'page' comparison in bps_get_directory_data() (where bps_current_page() uses HTTP_REFERER during AJAX and is therefore also attacker-controlled), and then suffixes the attacker-controlled template value with '.php' and passes it to bp_locate_template() with no basename restriction, no whitelist, and no path-traversal check. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to include arbitrary PHP files on the server, which can lead to remote code execution when PHP files can be uploaded or when images such as the default wordpress:php8.

Exploits & references

Proof-of-concept & detection

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

Advisories & patches

More in BP Profile Search

All 4
More vulnerabilities in BP Profile Search
SeverityVulnerabilityCVEPublished
Medium6.1Cross-Site Request Forgery to Reflected Cross-Site Scripting
≤5.7.5Update to 5.8
CVE-2024-7850
Medium6.1Reflected Cross-Site Scripting via BPS_FORM
≤5.5Update to 5.6
CVE-2024-22293
Critical9.0PHP Object Injection
≤4.5.3Update to 4.6
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CVE-2026-120688
Critical9.8Unauthenticated Arbitrary File Upload via File Upload via Public Form Submission
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Critical9.8Unauthenticated PHP Object Injection to Remote Code Execution via 'form' Parameter
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CVE-2026-119077
Medium5.3Unauthenticated Sensitive Information Exposure in 'search' Parameter
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CVE-2026-121518

Timeline

  1. CVE published

    Severity high, CVSS 8.1

  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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