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CVE-2020-5244Private data exposure via REST API in BuddyPress
- 8.0HighCVSS base score
- 2.4%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 15% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
In BuddyPress before 5.1.2, requests to a certain REST API endpoint can result in private user data getting exposed. Authentication is not needed. This has been patched in version 5.1.2.
Timeline
ID reserved
By GitHub_M
- 53 days later
· 53 days later
Published
- 4 years later
· 4 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| GitHub_MCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | High8.0 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | High7.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 2.4% · top 15% of all CVEs (13 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 8.0.
Affected products
- affected < 5.1.2
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- Packagistbuddypress/buddypressGHSA-3j78-7m59-r7gv (opens in a new tab)
References
References3
- https://github.com/buddypress/BuddyPress/security/advisories/GHSA-3j78-7m59-r7gv (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://buddypress.org/2020/01/buddypress-5-1-2/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://github.com/buddypress/BuddyPress/commit/39294680369a0c992290577a9d740f4a2f2c2ca3 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2020-0286 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-3j78-7m59-r7gv (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-2020-5244)Record last updated .