WordPress BuddyPress Better Registration plugin <= 1.6 - Broken Authentication vulnerability

published 2024-10-16 2 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2024-43316

cvss: 9.8; version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev: Not listed; not in CISA's catalog
epss: 0.5%; EPSS 0.5% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 45%
public exploits: 0; none known

Authentication Bypass Using an Alternate Path or Channel vulnerability in SK BuddyPress Better Registration better-bp-registration allows Authentication Bypass.This issue affects BuddyPress Better Registration: from n/a through <= 1.6.

CISA SSVC

Exploitation: none
Automatable: yes
Technical impact: total
Assessed: 2 y ago (2024-10-16)

Exploit prediction

0.53% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 45% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by	version	score	vector
CNA	3.1	9.8	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected products

SK BuddyPress Better Registration
oc2ps better-bp-registration

Classification

Weakness

CWE-288 Authentication Bypass Using an Alternate Path or Channel

Technology feeds

WordPress rss critical rss

References

patchstack.com /database/Wordpress/Plugin/better-bp-registration/vulnerability/wordpress-buddypress-better-registration-plugi
vdb-entry

Sources

CVE List CVE-2024-49247
NVD CVE-2024-49247

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Summary