CVE Catalog

CVE-2026-104995

HighCVSS 8.1
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Elevated risk
0.85%

57th percentile - higher than 57% of all known CVEs

Summary

The BP Profile Search plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Local File Inclusion in versions up to and including 5.9. Unauthenticated attackers can include arbitrary PHP files on the server, potentially leading to remote code execution.

Risk Assessment

Attackers can execute malicious code on the server, potentially leading to full compromise of the website and server.

Recommendation

Immediately update the BP Profile Search plugin to a version that includes a fix for the Local File Inclusion vulnerability.

Related vulnerabilities

Original NVD description (English source)

The BP Profile Search plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Local File Inclusion in versions up to, and including, 5.9 via the 'ajax_template' value parsed from the client-controlled 'bps_directory' cookie during BuddyPress AJAX directory requests. The bps_directory_ajax() filter (hooked onto bp_legacy_object_template_path and bp_nouveau_object_template_path) reads the cookie, applies only a referer-derived 'page' comparison in bps_get_directory_data() (where bps_current_page() uses HTTP_REFERER during AJAX and is therefore also attacker-controlled), and then suffixes the attacker-controlled template value with '.php' and passes it to bp_locate_template() with no basename restriction, no whitelist, and no path-traversal check. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to include arbitrary PHP files on the server, which can lead to remote code execution when PHP files can be uploaded or when images such as the default wordpress:php8.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS