Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the BuddyPress plugin before 1.9.2 for WordPress allows remote authenticated users to inject…

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the BuddyPress plugin before 1.9.2 for WordPress allows remote authenticated users to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the name field to groups/create/step/group-details. NOTE: this can be exploited without authentication by leveraging CVE-2014-1889.

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

2.6% · top 15% of all CVEs (5 Nov 2026)

The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 4.3.

Weakness

• n/a
• CWE-79 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-79 and its CVEs

Affected products

• n/a

  • affected n/a

References (7)

• 65555 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
• buddypress-cve20141888-xss(91175) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
• 56950 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
• http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/125212/WordPress-Buddypress-1.9.1-Cross-Site-Scripting.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
• http://buddypress.org/2014/02/buddypress-1-9-2 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• 20140213 Wordpress plugin Buddypress <= 1.9.1 stored xss vulnerability (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
• 103307 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDBx_transferred

Sources

The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.

• CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
• CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
• NVD (opens in a new tab)
• FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
• OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
• GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
• CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)

Badge for a README or a ticket

[![CVE-2014-1888](https://trackcve.app/badge/CVE-2014-1888.svg)](https://trackcve.app/cve/CVE-2014-1888)

Record last updated 6 Aug 2024, 09:58 UTC.