BuddyPress 14.4.0 Friends List IDOR via REST API

Versions reported by the vendor

Affected version ranges reported by the assigning authority (VulnCheck). Independent of NVD's CPE analysis and usually ahead of it.

• BuddyPress BuddyPress

  • up to and including 14.4.0affected · semver

Package-level exposure

OSV and GitHub Advisory data: ecosystem, package and range. SBOM matching uses this table.

Other highest-scoring records for the same primary product.

• CVE-2021-21389BuddyPress privilege escalation via REST API
  39Monitor
• CVE-2026-53673BuddyPress 14.4.0 Private Message IDOR via REST API user_id Parameter
  34Monitor
• CVE-2024-10011BuddyPress <= 14.1.0 - Authenticated (Subscriber+) Directory Traversal
  32Monitor
• CVE-2020-5244Private data exposure via REST API in BuddyPress
  31Monitor
• CVE-2012-2109SQL injection vulnerability in wp-load.php in the BuddyPress plugin 1.5.x before 1.5.5 of WordPress allows remote attackers to execute arbit
  31Monitor
• CVE-2026-1360BuddyPress <= 14.5.0 - Authenticated (Subscriber+) PHP Object Injection via XProfile Field Data
  30Monitor

FIRST EPSS daily score; only changes of 0.01 or more are recorded (step chart).

Root cause

The endpoint fetches the record by the ID sent in the request, but never checks whether the record belongs to the requesting user.

A representative example of this vulnerability class. Not the vendor's source code; it shows the faulty pattern and its fix.

1const invoice = await Invoice.findById(req.params.id);2res.json(invoice);

1const invoice = await Invoice.findOne({2  id: req.params.id,3  ownerId: req.user.id,4});5if (!invoice) return res.sendStatus(404);6res.json(invoice);

Attack context

MITRE CAPEC attack patterns and ATT&CK techniques for this weakness class (CWE). A starting point for detection rules and threat hunting.

MITRE has no CAPEC/ATT&CK mapping for this CWE.