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SCA: security update for bbpress/bbpress (GHSA-mwxh-6j9v-45ph)

critical Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 433775

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

 - An unauthenticated privilege-escalation issue exists in the bbPress plugin before 2.6.5 for WordPress when
 New User Registration is enabled. (CVE-2020-13693)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-mwxh-6j9v-45ph

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 433775

Version: Revision 1.2

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 8/19/2025

Updated: 1/28/2026

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Critical

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-13693

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.8

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

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/24/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/28/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-13693

cwe: CWE-269