PT-2025-43727 · WordPress · Wp Discussion Board

Kishan Vyas · CVE-2025-8483 · Published 2025-10-25 · Updated 2025-10-25

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

6.3

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions The Discussion Board – WordPress Forum Plugin versions prior to 2.5.5

Description The software allows users to execute an action that does not properly validate a value before running do shortcode. This can allow authenticated attackers with Subscriber-level access and above to execute arbitrary shortcodes.

Recommendations Update to version 2.5.5 or later.

Fix

Code Injection

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-94

Related Identifiers

CVE-2025-8483

Affected Products

Wp Discussion Board

References · 6

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-8483 · Security Note
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=3382300%40wp-discussion-board&new=3382300%40wp-discussion-board&sfp_email=&sfph_mail= · Note
• https://t.me/CVEtracker/35744 · Telegram Post
• https://twitter.com/VulmonFeeds/status/1982019519968166342 · Twitter Post
• https://wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/a09659bc-e42b-4f08-a1a1-23e226be1be9?source=cve · Note
• https://twitter.com/CVEnew/status/1981982750912417853 · Twitter Post