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BuddyPress <= 12.4.1 - Authenticated (Subscriber+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting

Type: advisorySources: OSV

The BuddyPress plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the ‘display_name’ parameter in versions up to, and including, 12.4.1 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.

Products
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Affected versions
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Fixed versions
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CVEs
CVE-2024-4892
Confirmed fixed CVEs
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4 Nov 2026, 15:07 UTC · Revision 1

Source evidence

BuddyPress <= 12.4.1 - Authenticated (Subscriber+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting

core-osv · Original source

Published 12 Jun 2024, 01:55 UTC

The BuddyPress plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the ‘display_name’ parameter in versions up to, and including, 12.4.1 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.

osv:CVE-2024-4892
Complete source record
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  "id": "91e9faac467f96c5407d6b8eb2c20dc39eaba3eb62a8f1546fbbdf195214bac0",
  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2024-4892",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
    "kind": "advisory",
    "title": "BuddyPress <= 12.4.1 - Authenticated (Subscriber+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting",
    "summary": "The BuddyPress plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the ‘display_name’ parameter in versions up to, and including, 12.4.1 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.",
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        }
      ],
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              "type": "GIT",
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                {
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          }
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      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-28T02:30:36.690684723Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/buddypress/tags/12.4.1/bp-members/bp-members-blocks.php#L249",
        "https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3100815/buddypress/trunk/bp-members/bp-members-blocks.php",
        "https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/113c154d-94a0-41da-a5ed-d9b2617e1c2c?source=cve",
        "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2024/4xxx/CVE-2024-4892.json",
        "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-4892"
      ],
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        ],
        "cna_assigner": "Wordfence",
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                  }
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              }
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          }
        ],
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      }
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  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 503993,
  "published_at": "2024-06-12T01:55:22.241+00:00"
}