BuddyPress <= 14.3.3 - Unauthenticated Arbitrary Shortcode Execution

7.3
Improper Control of Generation of Code ('Code Injection')
CVE CVE-2024-11976
CVSS 7.3 (High)
Publicly Published January 22, 2026
Last Updated January 23, 2026
Researcher mikemyers

Description

The The BuddyPress plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to arbitrary shortcode execution in all versions up to, and including, 14.3.3. This is due to the software allowing users to execute an action that does not properly validate a value before running do_shortcode. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to execute arbitrary shortcodes.

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Vulnerability Details for BuddyPress

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug buddypress (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Remediation Update to version 14.3.4, or a newer patched version
Affected Version
  • <= 14.3.3
Patched Version
  • 14.3.4

Recent vulnerabilities in BuddyPress

# Title CVE ID CVSS Researchers Date
1 BuddyPress <= 14.3.4 - Missing Authorization CVE-2025-62022 5.3 Asim Alshaya (AsimCr0) September 27, 2025
2 BuddyPress <= 14.1.0 - Authenticated (Subscriber+) Directory Traversal CVE-2024-10011 8.1 Dominik Dziura (Domons) October 24, 2024
3 BuddyPress <= 12.4.1 - Authenticated (Subscriber+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting CVE-2024-4892 6.4 wesley (wcraft) June 11, 2024
4 BuddyPress <= 12.4.0 - Authenticated (Subscriber+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting CVE-2024-3974 6.4 wesley (wcraft) May 3, 2024
5 BuddyPress <= 11.3.1 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting CVE-2023-50880 6.4 Rafie Muhammad December 26, 2023
6 BuddyPress <= 9.0.0 - Information Disclosure via REST API 8.8 Brajesh Singh August 18, 2021
7 BuddyPress <= 9.0.0 - SQL Injection 9.8 David Cavins August 18, 2021
8 BuddyPress <= 7.2.1 - Missing Authorization to Private Post Activity 5.4 Kien Hoang April 14, 2021
9 BuddyPress <= 7.2.1 - Insufficient Privilege De-escalation 8.8 Kien Hoang April 14, 2021
10 BuddyPress <= 7.2.1 - Missing Authorization to Unauthorized Group Access 5.4 Kien Hoang April 14, 2021

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