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CVE-2025-3793: Buddypress Force Password Change <= 0.1 - Authenticated (Subscriber+) Account Takeover via Password Update

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.2 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2025-04-24 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-620

Description

The Buddypress Force Password Change plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to authenticated account takeover due to the plugin not properly validating a user's identity prior to updating their password through the 'bp_force_password_ajax' function in all versions up to, and including, 0.1. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above and under certain prerequisites, to change arbitrary user's passwords, including administrators, and leverage that to gain access to their accounts.

Affected products

• lamarant Buddypress Force Password Change: through 0.1

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/buddy-press-force-password-change/trunk/bp-force-password-change.php#L93
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/e3048c4c-77b1-4778-a5d0-b532df777d06?source=cve

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