CVE-2020-5244

Private data exposure via REST API in BuddyPress

State: Published
Severity: 8.0 High
Published: Feb 24, 2020
Updated: Aug 4, 2024
Reserved: Jan 2, 2020

Description

In BuddyPress before 5.1.2, requests to a certain REST API endpoint can result in private user data getting exposed. Authentication is not needed. This has been patched in version 5.1.2.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	8.0 High	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N	GitHub_M

Weaknesses

CWE-284 Improper Access Control

Affected Products

Product	Versions
BuddyPressbuddypress	< 5.1.2Affected

References

https://github.com/buddypress/BuddyPress/security/advisories/GHSA-3j78-7m59-r7gv
https://buddypress.org/2020/01/buddypress-5-1-2/
https://github.com/buddypress/BuddyPress/commit/39294680369a0c992290577a9d740f4a2f2c2ca3

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