VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2014-1888

medium
Published 2014-03-01 · Modified 2026-04-29
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CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
4.3

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
buddypressbuddypress{"endIncluding":"1.9"}
buddypressbuddypress1.5
buddypressbuddypress1.5.1
buddypressbuddypress1.5.2
buddypressbuddypress1.5.3
buddypressbuddypress1.5.3.1
buddypressbuddypress1.5.4
buddypressbuddypress1.5.5
buddypressbuddypress1.5.6
buddypressbuddypress1.5.7
buddypressbuddypress1.6
buddypressbuddypress1.6.1
buddypressbuddypress1.6.2
buddypressbuddypress1.6.3
buddypressbuddypress1.6.4
buddypressbuddypress1.6.5
buddypressbuddypress1.7
buddypressbuddypress1.7.1
buddypressbuddypress1.7.2
buddypressbuddypress1.7.3
buddypressbuddypress1.8
buddypressbuddypress1.8.1
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References

CWEs

CWE-79

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.