High
Security advisory
In BuddyPress before 5.1.2, requests to a certain REST API endpoint can result in private user data getting exposed. Authentication is not needed. This has been patched in version 5.1.2.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2020-5244
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 11:29 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
In BuddyPress before 5.1.2, requests to a certain REST API endpoint can result in private user data getting exposed. Authentication is not needed. This has been patched in version 5.1.2.
osv:CVE-2020-5244
Complete source record
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"modified": "2026-10-20T10:54:22.285665580Z",
"provider": "osv",
"references": [
"https://buddypress.org/2020/01/buddypress-5-1-2/",
"https://github.com/buddypress/BuddyPress/security/advisories/GHSA-3j78-7m59-r7gv",
"https://github.com/buddypress/BuddyPress/commit/39294680369a0c992290577a9d740f4a2f2c2ca3"
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},
"source_id": "core-osv",
"document_id": 385214,
"published_at": "2020-02-24T18:15:22.4+00:00"
}