CVE-2018-16613

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.

CVSS v3 9.8 CRITICAL
CVSS v2.0 7.5 HIGH

9.8^/10

CVSS v3 : CRITICAL

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

Exploitability : 3.9 / Impact : 5.9

Attack Vector NETWORK

Attack Complexity LOW

Privileges Required NONE

User Interaction NONE

Confidentiality Impact HIGH

Integrity Impact HIGH

Availability Impact HIGH

Scope UNCHANGED

7.5^/10

CVSS v2.0 : HIGH

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

Exploitability : 10.0 / Impact : 6.4

Access Vector NETWORK

Access Complexity LOW

Authentication NONE

Confidentiality Impact PARTIAL

Integrity Impact PARTIAL

Availability Impact PARTIAL

References

Link	Resource
https://github.com/9emin1/advisories	Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/9emin1/advisories/blob/master/wpForo-1-5-1.md	Third Party Advisory
https://wordpress.org/plugins/wpforo/#developers	Release Notes Vendor Advisory

Configurations

Configuration 1 (hide)

cpe:2.3:a:gvectors:wpforo_forum:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*

History

No history.

Information

Published : 2019-06-19 18:15

Updated : 2023-12-10 12:59

NVD link : CVE-2018-16613

Mitre link : CVE-2018-16613

CVE.ORG link : CVE-2018-16613

JSON object : View

Products Affected

gvectors

wpforo_forum

CWE

NVD-CWE-noinfo

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