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GHSA-j3j5-5m8v-7gvc

BuddyPress: Authenticated attackers can access arbitrary private message threads via user_id request parameter

Source: GitHub Advisory Database (reviewed) High CVE-2026-53673

Packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixed in
Packagist buddypress/buddypress < 14.5.0 14.5.0

Details

As written in the advisory (Markdown source, shown as plain text).

BuddyPress 14.4.0 contains an insecure direct object reference vulnerability in the messages REST API that allows authenticated attackers to access arbitrary private message threads by supplying a user_id parameter in the request. Attackers can pass another user's identifier to the get_item_permissions_check method, which validates the supplied user_id instead of the logged-in user and is reused by the update and delete handlers, to read, reply to, or delete any user's private messages.

References

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