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Privilege Escalation in BuddyPress core allows Moderate to Administrator

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WordPress
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Reported by hoangkien1020

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## Description: BuddyPress core allows Moderate to Administrator in Manage Group Members module ## Steps To Reproduce: Step 1 : Create two account with two groups Step 2 : In account A, create group abc with this two users. Step 3 : Administrator in group abc promote account B to Moderator Step 4 : In account B, create own group(without account A), only account B. Step 5: In account B, access quick link here: domain/groups/[group_name]/admin/manage-members/ Change your B's group. There are Edit | Ban | Remove for you to select. Focusing to admin(When you are admin, all thing belongs you). Therefore, I select Edit. Change to Moderate(To capture this request) Change such as here: In POST method: POST /wp-json/buddypress/v1/groups/[group_A_id]/members/[id_user] HTTP/1.1 In body/blocked: action=promote&role=admin Note: change [group_A_id] to group you are moderator and [id_user]- your id Step 6: Done, you are admin's group A. You can do anything. Poc with video ## Recommendations Valid user with their roles ## Impact User will takeover group, do anything such as, edit roles,remove, ban, delelte group,..... (Perform as administrator)

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