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bbPress Vulnerabilities

Review known vulnerability records for the WordPress plugin bbPress (`bbpress`), including severity, CVE references, affected versions, and patch status.

Recent tracked CVEs on this page include CVE-2025-1435, CVE-2020-13693 and CVE-2020-13487, so operators can jump from disclosure to patch validation without scanning the full feed first.

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Known Records
6
High or Critical
3
Patch Coverage
100%
Last Updated
Mar 05, 2025
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Indexed CVEs
3
CVE-2020-13693 Critical 2.6.5
CVE-2020-13693 bbPress Privilege Escalation

bbPress <= 2.6.4 - Unauthenticated Privilege Escalation

CVE-2025-1435 Medium 2.6.12
CVE-2025-1435 bbPress Cross-Site Request Forgery

bbPress <= 2.6.11 - Cross-Site Request Forgery to Limited Privilege Escalation

CVE-2020-13487 Medium 2.6.5
CVE-2020-13487 bbPress Stored Cross-Site Scripting

bbPress <= 2.6.4 - Authenticated (Admin+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the forums list table

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Patch Visibility
6 records include a published patch path, leaving 0 with no listed safe release yet.
Severity Mix
1 critical and 2 high severity findings.
Recent CVEs
CVE-2025-1435, CVE-2020-13693 and CVE-2020-13487
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Known Vulnerabilities

Reports for bbPress

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Plugin Medium Patched: Yes CVE-2025-1435
CVE-2025-1435: bbPress <= 2.6.11 - Cross-Site Request Forgery to Limited Privilege Escalation

The bbPress plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in all versions up to, and including, 2.6.11. This is due to missing or incorrect nonce validation on the bbp_user_add_role_on_register() function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to...

Published
Mar 04, 2025
Patched Release
2.6.12
Affected Versions
Versions up to 2.6.11
Next Step
Update to 2.6.12 or newer if supported.
Open CVE-2025-1435 Report Open CVE Reference
Plugin Critical Patched: Yes CVE-2020-13693
CVE-2020-13693: bbPress <= 2.6.4 - Unauthenticated Privilege Escalation

The bbPress plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthenticated privilege escalation in versions up to, and including, 2.6.4. This is due to a logic bug within the signup process. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to grant themselves a role that will provide...

Published
May 28, 2020
Patched Release
2.6.5
Affected Versions
Versions up to 2.6.4
Next Step
Update to 2.6.5 or newer if supported.
Open CVE-2020-13693 Report Open CVE Reference
Plugin Medium Patched: Yes CVE-2020-13487
CVE-2020-13487: bbPress <= 2.6.4 - Authenticated (Admin+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the forums list table

The bbPress plugin through 2.6.4 for WordPress has stored XSS in the Forum creation section, resulting in JavaScript execution at wp-admin/edit.php?post_type=forum (aka the Forum listing page) for all users. An administrator can exploit this at the wp-admin/post.php?action=edit U...

Published
May 28, 2020
Patched Release
2.6.5
Affected Versions
Versions up to 2.6.4
Next Step
Update to 2.6.5 or newer if supported.
Open CVE-2020-13487 Report Open CVE Reference
Plugin High Patched: Yes
bbPress < 2.5.13 - Unauthenticated Blind SQL Injection

The bbPress plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to blind SQL Injection via the ‘anonymous_data’ parameter in versions up to, and including, 2.5.12 due to insufficient escaping on the user supplied parameter and lack of sufficient preparation on the existing SQL query. This makes i...

Published
Nov 13, 2017
Patched Release
2.5.13
Affected Versions
Versions before 2.5.13
Next Step
Update to 2.5.13 or newer if supported.
Open Full Report
Plugin Medium Patched: Yes
bbPress <= 2.5.9 - Cross-Site Scripting

The bbPress plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Scripting in versions up to, and including, 2.5.9 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user profile fields. This makes it possible for unauthorized attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts that...

Published
Jul 13, 2016
Patched Release
2.5.10
Affected Versions
Versions up to 2.5.9
Next Step
Update to 2.5.10 or newer if supported.
Open Full Report
Plugin High Patched: Yes
bbPress < 2.5.9 - Stored Cross-Site Scripting

The bbPress plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the bbp_mention_filter function in versions up to, and including, 2.5.8 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for attackers to inject arbitrary web scrip...

Published
May 03, 2016
Patched Release
2.5.9
Affected Versions
Versions before 2.5.9
Next Step
Update to 2.5.9 or newer if supported.
Open Full Report