{"id":"CVE-2021-21389","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2021-21389","generatedAt":"2026-11-05T01:35:25.271Z","title":"The vulnerability has been fixed in BuddyPress 7.2.1.","description":"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.","published":"2021-03-26T21:15:14.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T03:35:28.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"security-advisories@github.com","cvss":{"version":"3.1","score":8.8,"severity":"HIGH","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"},"cwe":["CWE-863"],"affected":["buddypress/buddypress"],"epss":{"score":0.14811,"percentile":0.96691,"date":"2026-11-03","history":[{"date":"2026-10-28","score":0.14811,"percentile":0.96672}]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"urgent","text":"EPSS puts the probability of exploitation in the next 30 days at 14.8%, higher than 97% of all known CVEs. Patch or mitigate before the next change window."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://buddypress.org/2021/03/buddypress-7-2-1-security-release/","tags":["Release Notes","Vendor Advisory"],"source":"security-advisories@github.com"},{"url":"https://codex.buddypress.org/releases/version-7-2-1/","tags":["Release Notes","Vendor Advisory"],"source":"security-advisories@github.com"},{"url":"https://github.com/buddypress/BuddyPress/security/advisories/GHSA-m6j4-8r7p-wpp3","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"security-advisories@github.com"},{"url":"https://buddypress.org/2021/03/buddypress-7-2-1-security-release/","tags":["Release Notes","Vendor Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://codex.buddypress.org/releases/version-7-2-1/","tags":["Release Notes","Vendor Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://github.com/buddypress/BuddyPress/security/advisories/GHSA-m6j4-8r7p-wpp3","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-21389","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}