CVE-2024-4892 BuddyPress <= 12.4.1 - Authenticated (Subscriber+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting

What is CVE-2024-4892?

CVE-2024-4892 is a medium-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in BuddyPress, published on 12 Jun 2024. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

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.

Weakness: CWE-79

Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-4892?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Buddypress Buddypress.

How do I fix CVE-2024-4892?

No fix has been published for CVE-2024-4892 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Escape output for the context it lands in and set a strict Content Security Policy. Upgrading the affected component is the real fix. More about Cross-site scripting.

Is CVE-2024-4892 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-4892 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in BuddyPress

• CVE-2024-10011 BuddyPress <= 14.1.0 - Authenticated (Subscriber+) Directory Traversal High 8.1
• CVE-2021-21389 BuddyPress privilege escalation via REST API High 8.1
• CVE-2020-5244 Private data exposure via REST API in BuddyPress High 8.0
• CVE-2012-2109 SQL injection in n/a High 7.5
• CVE-2025-23798 WordPress Mass Messaging in BuddyPress Plugin <= 2.2.1 - Reflected Cross Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability High 7.1

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as GHSA-93h4-qrq6-q2vm.