{"id":"CVE-2018-16613","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2018-16613","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T19:45:42.290Z","title":"A registered forum is able to escalate privilege to the forum administrator without any form of user interaction.","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.","published":"2019-06-19T18:15:11.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T01:44:33.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"cve@mitre.org","cvss":{"version":"3.0","score":9.8,"severity":"CRITICAL","vector":"CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"},"cwe":[],"affected":["gvectors/wpforo forum"],"epss":{"score":0.02733,"percentile":0.86021,"date":"2026-10-27","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"high","text":"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."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://github.com/9emin1/advisories","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://github.com/9emin1/advisories/blob/master/wpForo-1-5-1.md","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://wordpress.org/plugins/wpforo/#developers","tags":["Release Notes","Vendor Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://github.com/9emin1/advisories","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://github.com/9emin1/advisories/blob/master/wpForo-1-5-1.md","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://wordpress.org/plugins/wpforo/#developers","tags":["Release Notes","Vendor Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-16613","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}