CVE-2024-12767

BuddyBoss Platform < 2.7.60 - Insecure Direct Object Reference to Private Post Comment Exposure

2025-01-14 00:00

Strategic Overview

Status: Patched in 2.7.60
Affected Plugin: BuddyBoss Platform
Affected Version: < 2.7.60
CVSS: 4.3Medium
Weakness type: CWE-639 · Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key
CVE: CVE-2024-12767

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At a glance

CVE-2024-12767 is a medium-severity Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key vulnerability in the BuddyBoss Platform WordPress plugin, affecting versions < 2.7.60. It carries a CVSS score of 4.3 (reachable over the network; low attack complexity). The issue is fixed in version 2.7.60; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed January 2025, reported by Faris Krivic.

Vulnerability Overview

The BuddyBoss Platform plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Insecure Direct Object Reference in all versions up to 2.7.60 (exclusive) due to missing validation on a user controlled key. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to view comments on private posts.

Technical Analysis

The vector marks this flaw as remotely reachable over the network, with low attack complexity — no special timing or configuration is needed, and no interaction from a victim user.

CWE-639: Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key

Reaching this weakness in BuddyBoss Platform < 2.7.60 takes a caller who can reach the endpoint. Authorization bypass through a user-controlled key, often called insecure direct object reference, means the application looks up a record by an identifier from the request without checking that the caller owns it.

Changing a number in the request is enough to read or modify other users' records, which on commerce and membership sites means customer data. For BuddyBoss Platform the fix is 2.7.60: builds < 2.7.60 are affected, anything from 2.7.60 onward is not.

Remediation

Update to version 2.7.60, or a newer patched version

How does WordSec protect against this?

Because it turns on account access, WordSec's login security is the relevant layer: role-based two-factor, captcha and brute-force limits raise the cost of getting the account this needs. None of that substitutes for the fix: BuddyBoss Platform 2.7.60 closes this, and updating the plugin is the step that ends it.

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External References

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-12767 https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/a36dedad-da5e-440e-b626-95df0d154870 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-12767

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CVSS Vector

4.3

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

Base

Attack VectorNetwork
Attack ComplexityLow
Privileges RequiredLow
User InteractionNone
ScopeUnchanged
ConfidentialityLow
IntegrityNone
AvailabilityNone

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