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CVE-2021-21389

8.1
HIGHCVSS v3.1 Base Score
93.30%
HIGH RiskEPSS (100th percentile)

BuddyPress is an open source WordPress plugin to build a community site. In releases of BuddyPress from 5.0.0 before 7.2.1 it's possible for a non-privileged, regular user to obtain administrator rights by exploiting an issue in the REST API members endpoint. 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.

Published: 3/26/2021
Modified: 11/21/2024
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Vulnerability Summary

CVSS v3 Score

8.1HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

CVSS v2 Score

9

AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C

EPSS Score (Exploitation Probability)

93.30%HIGH Exploitation Risk
100th percentile

This vulnerability has a 93.30% probability of being exploited in the next 30 days, ranking higher than 100% of all scored CVEs.

CWE Classification

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