CVE-2014-1888

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2014-03-01 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-79

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.

Affected products

BuddyPress: through 1.9; 1.5, 1.5.1, 1.5.2, 1.5.3, 1.5.3.1, 1.5.4 (+15)

References

http://buddypress.org/2014/02/buddypress-1-9-2
http://osvdb.org/103307
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/125212/WordPress-Buddypress-1.9.1-Cross-Site-Scripting.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/56950
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/531049/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/65555
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/91175
http://buddypress.org/2014/02/buddypress-1-9-2
http://osvdb.org/103307
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/125212/WordPress-Buddypress-1.9.1-Cross-Site-Scripting.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/56950
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/531049/100/0/threaded

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