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| Rule General Information |
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| Release Date: | 2021-06-01 | |
| Rule Name: | WordPress Plugin BuddyPress Remote Code Execution Vulnerability (CVE-2021-21389) | |
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| Rule Protection Details |
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| Description: | 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. | |
| Impact: | An attacker can execute arbitrary code via a successful exploit in the context of the vulnerable software. | |
| Affected OS: | Windows, Linux, Others | |
| Reference: | https://buddypress.org/2021/03/buddypress-7-2-1-security-release/ https://codex.buddypress.org/releases/version-7-2-1/ https://github.com/buddypress/BuddyPress/security/advisories/GHSA-m6j4-8r7p-wpp3 |
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| Solutions |
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| The vendor has released upgrade patches to fix vulnerabilities, please visit: https://buddypress.org/2021/03/buddypress-7-2-1-security-release/ |