BP Better Messages <= 2.4.32 - Missing Authorization

5.3
Missing Authorization
CVE CVE-2024-32802
CVSS 5.3 (Medium)
Publicly Published April 22, 2024
Last Updated April 29, 2024
Researcher Ananda Dhakal

Description

The Better Messages – Live Chat for WordPress, BuddyPress, PeepSo, Ultimate Member, BuddyBoss plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to missing authorization in all versions up to, and including, 2.4.32. This is due to the plugin not properly verifying if a user should have access to a chatoom. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to access chat rooms they should not have access to.

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Vulnerability Details for Better Messages – Chat Rooms, Group Chat, Private Messages & AI Chat Bots

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug bp-better-messages (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Remediation Update to version 2.4.33, or a newer patched version
Affected Version
  • <= 2.4.32
Patched Version
  • 2.4.33

Recent vulnerabilities in Better Messages – Chat Rooms, Group Chat, Private Messages & AI Chat Bots

# Title CVE ID CVSS Researchers Date
1 Better Messages – Chat Rooms, Group Chat, Private Messages & AI Chat Bots <= 2.14.16 - Unauthenticated Insecure Direct Object Reference CVE-2026-42736 5.3 dodoh4t May 27, 2026
2 Freemius <= 2.10.1 - Reflected DOM-Based Cross-Site Scripting via url Parameter CVE-2024-13362 6.1 Asaf Mozes April 30, 2026
3 Better Messages – Live Chat for WordPress, BuddyPress, PeepSo, Ultimate Member, BuddyBoss <= 2.10.2 - Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting CVE-2025-14154 6.1 zer0gh0st December 16, 2025
4 Better Messages – Live Chat for WordPress, BuddyPress, PeepSo, Ultimate Member, BuddyBoss <= 2.6.9 - Unauthenticated Sensitive Information Exposure Through Unprotected Directory CVE-2024-13611 7.5 Tim Coen February 28, 2025
5 Better Messages – Live Chat for WordPress, BuddyPress, PeepSo, Ultimate Member, BuddyBoss <= 2.7.4 - Unauthenticated Limited Server-Side Request Forgery in nice_links CVE-2024-13697 4.8 Tim Coen February 28, 2025
6 Better Messages – Live Chat for WordPress, BuddyPress, PeepSo, Ultimate Member, BuddyBoss <= 2.6.9 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Shortcode CVE-2024-13612 6.4 Bassem Essam January 31, 2025
7 BP Better Messages <= 2.4.0 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via shortcode CVE-2023-49168 6.4 Rafshanzani Suhada November 29, 2023
8 Freemius SDK <= 2.5.9 - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting via fs_request_get CVE-2023-33999 6.1 Rafie Muhammad July 18, 2023
9 Better Messages <= 1.9.10.68 - Authorization Bypass to Blocking Control Bypass CVE-2022-40216 5.4 Dhakal Ananda November 9, 2022
10 Better Messages <= 1.9.10.68 - Server-Side Request Forgery CVE-2022-41609 7.4 Dhakal Ananda October 21, 2022

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