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CVE-2018-16613

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2019-06-19 · updated 2026-06-17

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.

Affected products

• tomdever wpForo Forum: before 1.5.2 — fixed in 1.5.2

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: tomdever wpForo Forum 1.5.2. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://github.com/9emin1/advisories
• https://github.com/9emin1/advisories/blob/master/wpForo-1-5-1.md
• https://wordpress.org/plugins/wpforo/#developers
• https://github.com/9emin1/advisories
• https://github.com/9emin1/advisories/blob/master/wpForo-1-5-1.md
• https://wordpress.org/plugins/wpforo/#developers

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