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BuddyBoss Platform EUVDEUVD-2026-114702

| CVE-2026-96554 MEDIUM
Cross-site Scripting (XSS) (CWE-79)
2026-10-31 Wordfence GHSA-fjfj-gq95-wvgm
6.4
CVSS 3.1 · NVD
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Attack ChainAIDerived

Hypothetical attack flow derived from CVE metadata – not a confirmed exploit chain

  1. Access
    Register or use Subscriber-level account
  2. Delivery
    Create group with malicious script in Group Name
  3. Exploit
    Stored payload saved without sanitization
  4. Execution
    Victim views injected group page
  5. Impact
    Script executes in victim browser context

Vulnerability Assessment

Weakness
CWE
OWASP Top 10:2025
A05:2025 - Injection
ASVS 5.0
V1 - Encoding and Sanitization Output encoding, context-aware escaping
MITRE ATT&CK

2 techniques across 2 tactics: Initial Access, Execution

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Exploitation Conditions

Requires an authenticated account at Subscriber level or above (PR:L), and the BuddyBoss 'Enable social group creation by all members' setting must be enabled - this is the default, which permits Subscriber-level users to create groups and supply a malicious Group Name. Exploitation is explicitly not possible if group creation is restricted to administrators, so sites that have changed this setting are not exposed. The payload executes when any user subsequently accesses the injected group page; the primary limiting factors are the need for a (low-privilege) authenticated account and the default-on but reconfigurable group-creation setting.

Impact

This is a moderate-severity stored XSS (CVSS 6.4, CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N) whose real-world priority sits below critical but above negligible. The CVSS vector indicates network-reachable, low-complexity injection requiring only low privileges (PR:L = authenticated Subscriber), with a changed scope reflecting script execution in victims' browsers and limited confidentiality/integrity impact. The vuln.today decision label is 'this_month' - a routine patch-cycle priority, not an emergency. No EPSS score, no CISA KEV listing, and no confirmed public exploit code are present in the input, so there is no signal of active or widespread exploitation; exploitation status is 'no public exploit identified at time of analysis.' The dominant limiting factor is the required configuration: exploitation depends on the 'Enable social group creation by all members' setting, which is default-enabled and lets Subscriber-level users create groups - so default installs are exposed, but environments that restrict group creation to administrators are not. On balance this is a real but non-urgent issue: the low privilege barrier and default-enabled precondition make it practically reachable on typical sites, while the limited impact (stored XSS, no availability impact) and absence of exploitation signals keep it out of drop-everything territory.

Exploit ScenarioDerived

An attacker registers or already holds a Subscriber-level account on a BuddyBoss-powered community site where member group creation is enabled (the default). They create a group whose name contains a malicious script payload; because the name is insufficiently sanitized and not escaped on output, the script executes in the browser of any user who views the injected group page, potentially enabling session/cookie theft or actions in the context of higher-privileged viewers. No public exploit code is identified in the provided sources.

This Month Plan within 30 days. Why: MEDIUM severity (CVSS 4.0-6.9).
No patch listed yet 0.3% exploitation probability (EPSS)

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AnalysisAIv1 – Oct 31, 2026

Stored cross-site scripting in the BuddyBoss Platform WordPress plugin (all versions through 3.6.0) lets a Subscriber-level account persist arbitrary script in a social group's name, which then executes in the browser of any user viewing that group page. Exploitation depends on the plugin's 'Enable social group creation by all members' setting - enabled by default, letting low-privilege users create groups - and is not possible where group creation has been restricted to administrators. A public advisory and release notes for version 3.7.0 are available; no KEV listing or confirmed exploit code is in the supplied data, and the assessed impact is moderate (CVSS 6.4, scope-changed, low confidentiality and integrity impact).

RemediationAI

Vendor-released fix: upgrade the BuddyBoss Platform plugin to version 3.7.0 or later, as documented in the release notes at https://buddyboss.com/resources/buddyboss-platform-releases/3-7-0/ and the Wordfence advisory at https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/70f79f27-e577-4e1c-886f-bdb38cdc5600?source=cve. Where immediate upgrading is not possible, the exposure can be removed by disabling the 'Enable social group creation by all members' setting and restricting group creation to administrators - the trade-off is that ordinary members lose the ability to create their own groups. Because the payload requires a low-privileged authenticated account to plant, reviewing and removing recently created groups with suspicious names, and auditing Subscriber-level accounts on community sites, reduces residual risk. Updating is the complete fix, as sanitization and escaping are corrected in the patched release.

Affected VersionsENISA

Buddyboss Platform 0 ≤3.6.0

Affected Packages

euvd buddyboss_platform no fix

Source: OSV (Open Source Vulnerabilities)

Affects your stack

Affects 1 package in euvd

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Technical ContextAI · show details

BuddyBoss Platform is a WordPress community/social-networking plugin that provides groups, activity feeds and member profiles; the vulnerable data path is the social group creation and rendering flow. The flaw is CWE-79 (improper neutralization of input during web page generation), specifically stored XSS: the group name supplied at creation time is neither sufficiently sanitized on input nor escaped on output, so markup is persisted and later rendered into group pages viewed by other members, staff and administrators. The CVSS vector AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N reflects network reachability, a low-privileged authenticated attacker, no user interaction required of the victim beyond loading the affected page, and a scope change because script runs in the context of the affected site and can act with the victim's session privileges; confidentiality and integrity impacts are rated low. The trigger specifics beyond group-name handling are not described in the available sources. The CPE cpe:2.3:a:boss_media:buddyboss_platform:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* covers all versions up to and including 3.6.0.

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Severity by source

Vendor (Wordfence) PRIMARY MEDIUM
NVD 6.4 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
vuln.today AI 6.4 MEDIUM

Network-reachable injection by an authenticated Subscriber (PR:L), low complexity; stored payload executes cross-context (S:C) with limited C/I and no availability impact.

3.1 AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
4.0 AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:N/SC:L/SI:L/SA:N

Primary rating from Vendor (Wordfence).

CVSS VectorNVD

Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
Low
Privileges Required
Low
User Interaction
None
Scope
Changed
Confidentiality
Low
Integrity
Low
Availability
None

DescriptionNVD

The BuddyBoss Platform plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Group Name in all versions up to, and including, 3.6.0 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page. This requires the "Enable social group creation by all members" setting to be enabled, which is the default and permits Subscriber-level users to create groups; exploitation is not possible if group creation is restricted to administrators.

Threat Intelligence Overview

EPSS Score
0.3%
Top 82% exploitable
Prevalence
Medium
popular WordPress community/social-network plugin, common but not universal
Social Media
2
Sightings
Data Quality
4 sources
Confidence: Medium

How this decision was reached

The engine reads each signal below and applies a fixed list of rules from top to bottom. The first rule that matches sets the recommended action – like a statement, every line is shown.

SignalValue
Severity MEDIUM
CISA KEV No
Public POC No
EPSS 0.3%
Patch available No
Active threat No
Deciding rule
MEDIUM severity (CVSS 4.0-6.9)
What every action level means
Emergency Immediate action required. Criteria: CRITICAL + in CISA KEV (actively exploited) without patch, OR CRITICAL + EPSS > 30% without patch, OR CRITICAL + active threat signals without patch.
Act Now Prioritize within 24-48h. Criteria: in KEV with patch available, OR CRITICAL + public POC, OR HIGH + EPSS > 10%, OR CRITICAL + active threat, OR any CRITICAL severity.
This Week Schedule remediation this week. Criteria: HIGH severity (CVSS 7.0-8.9). Patch within normal change window.
This Month Plan within 30 days. Criteria: MEDIUM severity (CVSS 4.0-6.9), lower exploitation probability. Include in regular patch cycle.
Monitor Track and reassess. Criteria: LOW severity (CVSS 0.1-3.9), minimal exploitation risk. No immediate action needed.

SSVC AssessmentENISA

SSVC Decision· derived
Scheduled
Exploitation· derived
None
System Exposure· derived
Open
Automatable· derived
No
Human Impact· derived
Medium

Priority Score

32
Low Medium High Critical
KEV: 0
EPSS: 0
CVSS: +32
PoC: 0
Weaponized: 0
Threat intel: 0
Gov advisory: 0

Attack Technique

Cross-Site Scripting occurs when an application accepts untrusted data and sends it to a web browser without proper validation or encoding.

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