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CVE-2025-12391: Restrictions for BuddyPress <= 1.5.2 - Missing Authorization to Unauthenticated Tracking Status Update

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.3 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2025-11-18 · updated 2026-10-18
• Weakness: CWE-862

Description

The Restrictions for BuddyPress plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the handle_optin_optout() function in all versions up to, and including, 1.5.2. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to opt in and out of tracking.

Affected products

• seventhqueen Restrictions for BuddyPress: through 1.5.2

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=3468480%40bp-restrict&new=3468480%40bp-restrict&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=
• https://wordpress.org/plugins/bp-restrict/
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/f4fe5ed7-17e2-4098-a51b-3b780721bf2e?source=cve

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