CVE-2020-13693
An unauthenticated privilege-escalation issue exists in the bbPress plugin before 2.6.5 for WordPress when New User Registration is enabled.
Does this matter?
EPSS puts the probability of exploitation in the next 30 days at 43.9%, higher than 99% of all known CVEs. Patch or mitigate before the next change window.
Description
An unauthenticated privilege-escalation issue exists in the bbPress plugin before 2.6.5 for WordPress when New User Registration is enabled.
- CVSS 3.1
- 9.8 CRITICALCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- EPSS
- 43.88% probability · 99th percentile
- Public exploits
- 1 in Exploit-DB · first 1 June 2020
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Affected
- bbpress/bbpress
- Source
- cve@mitre.org
EPSS 43.9% since 26 October 2026; no change recorded yet. The dashed line is the ten per cent mark our analysts treat as “patch before the next change window”. Points are recorded when the score first appears and whenever it moves by a percentage point or more.
Public exploits (1)
Entries in Exploit-DB that cite this CVE. Links go to the Exploit-DB page and to the file in the public repository; nothing is hosted here. A verified tick means the Exploit-DB team confirmed the exploit works against the stated version.
References
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/157885/WordPress-BBPress-2.5-Privilege-Escalation.htmlExploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://bbpress.org/blog/2020/05/bbpress-2-6-5-is-out/Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
- https://codex.bbpress.org/releases/Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
- https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress/#developersRelease Notes, Third Party Advisory
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/157885/WordPress-BBPress-2.5-Privilege-Escalation.htmlExploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://bbpress.org/blog/2020/05/bbpress-2-6-5-is-out/Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
- https://codex.bbpress.org/releases/Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
- https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress/#developersRelease Notes, Third Party Advisory
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.