CVE-2021-21389

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.

NVD

Severity: HIGH
CVE ID: CVE-2021-21389
CVSS Score: 8.8
CVSS Metrics: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

GitHub, Inc.

Severity: HIGH
CVE ID: CVE-2021-21389
CVSS Score: 8.1
CVSS Metrics: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

Refrence: NVDMITRE

Proof Of Concept

Nuclei Templates for CVE-2021-21389

Refrence: Project Discovery GitHub

HoangKien1020

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.

Refrence: GitHub