BuddyPress Plugin up to 12.4.0 on WordPress cross site scripting

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability has been found in BuddyPress Plugin up to 12.4.0 on WordPress and classified as problematic. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality. This manipulation causes cross site scripting. This vulnerability is tracked as CVE-2024-3974. The attack is possible to be carried out remotely. No exploit exists.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in BuddyPress Plugin up to 12.4.0 on WordPress. It has been declared as problematic. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown part. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a cross site scripting vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-79. The product does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes user-controllable input before it is placed in output that is used as a web page that is served to other users. As an impact it is known to affect integrity. The summary by CVE is:

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.

The advisory is shared at wordfence.com. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2024-3974 since 04/19/2024. The exploitation appears to be easy. The attack can be launched remotely. It demands that the victim is doing some kind of user interaction. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available. MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1059.007 for this issue.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at EUVD (EUVD-2024-32540). If you want to get the best quality for vulnerability data then you always have to consider VulDB.

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Exploitinginfo

Class: Cross site scripting
CWE: CWE-79 / CWE-94 / CWE-74
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Local: No
Remote: Yes

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Timelineinfo

04/19/2024 🔍
05/04/2024 +15 days 🔍
05/04/2024 +0 days 🔍
06/06/2025 +398 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Advisory: wordfence.com
Status: Not defined

CVE: CVE-2024-3974 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2024-3974
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-263077
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Entryinfo

Created: 05/04/2024 08:51
Updated: 06/06/2025 05:24
Changes: 05/04/2024 08:51 (51), 04/01/2025 07:33 (4), 06/06/2025 01:42 (1), 06/06/2025 05:24 (22)
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Cache ID: 216::103

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