{"id":"CVE-2023-2249","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2023-2249","generatedAt":"2026-11-04T23:23:36.198Z","title":"The wpForo Forum plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Local File Include, Server-Side Request Forgery, and PHAR Deserialization in versions up to, and including, 2.1.7.","description":"The wpForo Forum plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Local File Include, Server-Side Request Forgery, and PHAR Deserialization in versions up to, and including, 2.1.7. This is due to the insecure use of file_get_contents without appropriate verification of the data being supplied to the function. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with minimal permissions such as a subscriber, to retrieve the contents of files like wp-config.php hosted on the system, perform a deserialization attack and possibly achieve remote code execution, and make requests to internal services.","published":"2023-06-09T06:16:05.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T05:52:06.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"security@wordfence.com","cvss":{"version":"3.1","score":8.8,"severity":"HIGH","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"},"cwe":["CWE-98","CWE-829","CWE-918"],"affected":["gvectors/wpforo forum"],"epss":{"score":0.60809,"percentile":0.99151,"date":"2026-11-03","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"urgent","text":"EPSS puts the probability of exploitation in the next 30 days at 60.8%, higher than 99% of all known CVEs. Patch or mitigate before the next change window."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wpforo/tags/2.1.7/classes/Actions.php#L444","tags":["Patch"],"source":"security@wordfence.com"},{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wpforo/tags/2.1.8/classes/Actions.php#L437","tags":["Patch"],"source":"security@wordfence.com"},{"url":"https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/800fa098-b29f-4979-b7bd-b1186a4dafcb?source=cve","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"security@wordfence.com"},{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wpforo/tags/2.1.7/classes/Actions.php#L444","tags":["Patch"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wpforo/tags/2.1.8/classes/Actions.php#L437","tags":["Patch"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/800fa098-b29f-4979-b7bd-b1186a4dafcb?source=cve","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-2249","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."}