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BuddyPress

Turn WordPress into a social network

Social Networks ★ 257 stars Medium setup GPL-2.0

BuddyPress is a suite of components for WordPress that adds member profiles, activity streams, user groups, and private messaging, transforming a WordPress site into a full social network or community platform.

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Key features

  • Social network features for WordPress
  • Member profiles and activity streams
  • Groups and private messaging

Strengths

  • Released under the GPL-2.0 license
  • Written in PHP
  • Lightweight — runs in 512 MB RAM

Is BuddyPress secure?

OSV.dev lists 8 published advisories for BuddyPress. It doesn't publish GitHub releases we can match, so we can't say which of them apply to the current version. No known vulnerabilities is not proof of security: it means none have been publicly catalogued.

  • Most recent fixed advisory CVE-2025-23798, published 2025-01-22 (630 days ago)

Source: OSV.dev, checked 2026-10-14. How this is measured.

BuddyPress replaces

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