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BuddyPress <= 5.1.0 — Denial of Service

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Action summary

Affected: ≤5.1.0Update to 5.1.1 or newer

All remediation steps
Severity
Medium5.4
CVSS
5.4
CVSS 3.1 · CNA (Wordfence)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L
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:U Scope
Unchanged
C:N Confidentiality
None
I:L Integrity
Low
A:L Availability
Low
Weakness
CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
Required access
Unknown
Exploit prediction (EPSS)
No score
CISA KEV
Not listed

Am I affected?

BuddyPress buddypress

  1. Affected≤ 5.1.0
  2. Patched in5.1.1

Update to 5.1.1 or newer.

You are affected if you run ≤ 5.1.0. Version 5.1.1 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 5.1.1, 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 nomnom.

The BuddyPress plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Denial of Service in versions up to, and including, 5.1.0. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers to remove another user’s avatar and/or remove any empty folder.

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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Medium6.5Authenticated (Subscriber+) SQL Injection
≤14.5.2Update to 14.5.3
CVE-2026-111850
Medium4.3Insecure Direct Object Reference to Notifications Deletion
≤14.3.3Update to 14.3.4
CVE-2024-12145
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
CVE-2026-8155

Timeline

  1. CVE published

    Severity medium, CVSS 5.4

  2. Record last updated

Sources & licenses

Vulnerability data
Wordfence Intelligence. Copyright 2012-2026 Defiant Inc. Licensed under the CC BY-SA 4.0.
CVSS / CWE
National Vulnerability Database (NVD), shown unmodified. This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.
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Summary, remediation guidance and page layout © VulnCrest. Not sourced from NVD.

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