VulnerabilityModified
CVE-2018-16613
A registered forum is able to escalate privilege to the forum administrator without any form of user interaction.
CRITICAL 9.8EPSS 2.73%
Does this matter?
High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (2.73%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.
Description
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.
- CVSS 3.0
- 9.8 CRITICALCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- EPSS
- 2.73% probability · 85th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Affected
- gvectors/wpforo forum
- Source
- cve@mitre.org
References
- https://github.com/9emin1/advisoriesThird Party Advisory
- https://github.com/9emin1/advisories/blob/master/wpForo-1-5-1.mdThird Party Advisory
- https://wordpress.org/plugins/wpforo/#developersRelease Notes, Vendor Advisory
- https://github.com/9emin1/advisoriesThird Party Advisory
- https://github.com/9emin1/advisories/blob/master/wpForo-1-5-1.mdThird Party Advisory
- https://wordpress.org/plugins/wpforo/#developersRelease Notes, Vendor Advisory
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.