Advisories for Composer/Buddypress/Buddypress package

2026

BuddyPress: Authenticated attackers can access arbitrary private message threads via user_id request parameter

BuddyPress 14.4.0 contains an insecure direct object reference vulnerability in the messages REST API that allows authenticated attackers to access arbitrary private message threads by supplying a user_id parameter in the request. Attackers can pass another user's identifier to the get_item_permissions_check method, which validates the supplied user_id instead of the logged-in user and is reused by the update and delete handlers, to read, reply to, or delete any user's private …

BuddyPress: Any authenticated attacker can enumerate another user's complete friend list via IDOR

BuddyPress 14.4.0 contains an insecure direct object reference vulnerability in the friends REST API that allows any authenticated attacker to enumerate another user's complete friend list. Attackers can query the friends endpoint with an arbitrary user_id because the get_items_permissions_check method only verifies that the requester is logged in and never checks ownership of the requested list, resulting in disclosure of users' private social connections.

2023
2021

Incorrect Authorization

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

2020
2017