CVE-2018-16613

moderate-risk

Published 2019-06-19

An issue was discovered in the update function in the wpForo Forum plugin before 1.5.2 for WordPress. A registered forum is able to escalate privilege to the forum administrator without any form of user interaction.

Do I need to act?

1.5% chance of exploitation in next 30 days

EPSS score — moderate exploit probability

Not on CISA KEV list

No confirmed active exploitation reported to CISA

Patch status unknown

Check vendor advisories for fix availability and mitigation guidance

CVSS 9.8/10 Critical

NETWORK / LOW complexity

Affected Products (1)

Wpforo Forum

Affected Vendors

Gvectors

References (6)

Third Party Advisory https://github.com/9emin1/advisories

Third Party Advisory https://github.com/9emin1/advisories/blob/master/wpForo-1-5-1.md

Release Notes https://wordpress.org/plugins/wpforo/#developers

Third Party Advisory https://github.com/9emin1/advisories

Third Party Advisory https://github.com/9emin1/advisories/blob/master/wpForo-1-5-1.md

Release Notes https://wordpress.org/plugins/wpforo/#developers

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moderate-risk

Severity 32/34 · Critical

Exploitability 4/34 · Minimal

Exposure 5/34 · Minimal