wpForo Forum <= 2.2.5 - Missing Authorization

Missing Authorization
CVE CVE-2023-47869
CVSS Medium (4.3)
Publicly Published November 20, 2023
Last Updated May 30, 2024
Researcher Jesse McNeil
Description

The wpForo Forum plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized control of data due to a missing capability check on an unknown function in all versions up to, and including, 2.2.5. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, to perform an unauthorized action.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug wpforo (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 2.2.5
Patched Version
  • 2.2.6
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