CVE-2014-1888: Buddypress

Medium severity, CVSS 4.3. EPSS: 2.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Buddypress Buddypress: up to and including 1.9; version 1.5 only; version 1.5.1 only; version 1.5.2 only; version 1.5.3 only; version 1.5.3.1 only; …

Published 2014-03-01. Last modified 2026-06-17.