CVE-2026-96554

medium

Description

The BuddyBoss Platform plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Group Name in all versions up to, and including, 3.6.0 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page. This requires the "Enable social group creation by all members" setting to be enabled, which is the default and permits Subscriber-level users to create groups; exploitation is not possible if group creation is restricted to administrators.

References

https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/70f79f27-e577-4e1c-886f-bdb38cdc5600?source=cve

https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2026-114702

https://buddyboss.com/resources/buddyboss-platform-releases/3-7-0/

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2026-10-31

Updated: 2026-10-31

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 5.5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:N

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 6.4

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00261