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CVE-2018-16613

critical

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.

References

https://github.com/9emin1/advisories/blob/master/wpForo-1-5-1.md

https://github.com/9emin1/advisories

https://wordpress.org/plugins/wpforo/#developers

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2019-06-19

Updated: 2026-06-17

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 9.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: Critical

EPSS

EPSS: 0.0153