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SCA: security update for buddypress/buddypress (GHSA-m6j4-8r7p-wpp3)

high Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 416786

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

 - 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.
 (CVE-2021-21389)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-m6j4-8r7p-wpp3

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 416786

Version: Revision 1.5

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 1/23/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.9

Percentile: 57.12

Vendor

Vendor Severity: High

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9

Temporal Score: 6.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-21389

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.8

Temporal Score: 7.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/6/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/26/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-21389

cwe: CWE-863