The wpForo Forum plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation in all versions up to, and including, 2.2.3. This is due to incorrect assignment of user permissions during registration. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to elevate their privileges to that of an administrator.
CVE-2023-47868 is a critical severity with CVSS 9.8 Privilege Escalation issue affecting the Plugin wpForo Forum. It affects Versions up to 2.2.3 and is fixed in 2.2.4.
CVE-2023-47868 is tracked for the Plugin wpForo Forum as critical severity with CVSS 9.8. The affected range is Versions up to 2.2.3. Update wpForo Forum to 2.2.4 or newer where that version is compatible with the site.
| Software Type | Plugin |
|---|---|
| Software Slug |
wpforo
View on wordpress.org
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| CVE | CVE-2023-47868 |
| Patched Versions |
2.2.4
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| Affected Versions |
Versions up to 2.2.3
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These internal links group the same WordPress plugin by CVE, issue type, severity, and patch status so operators and search engines can connect the full vulnerability cluster.
wpForo Forum <= 2.3.3 - Authenticated (Contributor+) SQL Injection
wpForo < = 1.5.1 - Privilege Escalation
wpForo Forum <= 1.4.12 - SQL Injection
wpForo Forum <= 2.4.16 - Authenticated (Subscriber+) Arbitrary File Deletion via Post Body
wpForo Forum <= 2.4.13 - Authenticated (Subscriber+) PHP Object Injection
wpForo Forum <= 2.4.3 - Authenticated (Subscriber+) Privilege Escalation
wpForo Forum <= 2.1.7 - Authenticated (Subscriber+) Local File Include, Server-Side Request Forgery, and PHAR Deserialization via file_get_contents
wpForo Forum <= 2.0.9 - Authenticated (Subscriber+) Arbitrary File Upload
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