PT-2019-9356 · Wpforo · Wpforo Forum

Published 2019-06-19 · Updated 2020-08-24 · CVE-2018-16613

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

9.8

Critical

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions wpForo Forum plugin versions prior to 1.5.2

Description A privilege escalation issue was discovered in the update function of the wpForo Forum plugin. This allows a registered forum user to escalate their privileges to those of a forum administrator without requiring any user interaction.

Recommendations For versions prior to 1.5.2, update to version 1.5.2 or later to resolve the issue.

Fix

Related Identifiers

CVE-2018-16613

Affected Products

Wpforo Forum

References · 5

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-16613 · Security Note
• https://wordpress.org/plugins/wpforo/#developers · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2018-16613 · Vendor Advisory
• https://github.com/9emin1/advisories · Note
• https://github.com/9emin1/advisories/blob/master/wpForo-1-5-1.md · Note