# Wbcom Designs – BuddyPress Group Reviews <= 3.9.0 - Unauthenticated Sensitive Information Exposure of Unpublished Reviews via REST API

- **ID:** WPSEC-2026-2493
- **Plugin:** Wbcom Designs – BuddyPress Group Reviews (`review-buddypress-groups`), https://wordpress.org/plugins/review-buddypress-groups/
- **Affected versions:** from 3.5.0 before 3.9.1
- **Fixed in:** 3.9.1 (Update to 3.9.1 or later.)
- **Severity:** Medium 5.3 (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N)
- **Weakness:** CWE-200
- **Usage among sites WPSec scans:** plugin Low, affected versions None seen (as of 2026-11-04)
- **Attack surface analysis:** https://attacksurface.wpsec.com/plugin/review-buddypress-groups
- **Fix released:** 2026-11-03
- **Published:** 2026-11-04
- **URL:** https://wpsec.com/vuln/WPSEC-2026-2493/

## Description

The BuddyPress Group Reviews plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Sensitive Information Exposure via the single group review REST API endpoint (buddypress/v1/groups/<group_id>/reviews/<review_id>) in all versions up to, and including, 3.9.0, due to the endpoint only checking that the review belongs to the supplied group, not that it is published or that the requester may edit it. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to read the content, author and ratings of draft (pending moderation) and trashed (denied) reviews.

## References

- https://wpsec.com/vuln/WPSEC-2026-2493/
- https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/review-buddypress-groups/tags/3.9.1/
- https://wordpress.org/plugins/review-buddypress-groups/

Source: WPSec, https://wpsec.com/vuln/WPSEC-2026-2493/

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