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CVE-2024-3974

MEDIUM CVSS: 6.4 Published: 2024-05-14 Modified: 2026-06-17

Description

The BuddyPress plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the ‘user_name’ parameter in versions up to, and including, 12.4.0 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level permissions and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.

Affected Platforms

Buddypress Buddypress

Weakness Type

CWE-79, CWE-79

References