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CVE-2020-13487

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2020-05-26 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-79

Description

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 URI.

Affected products

• bbPress: through 2.6.4

References

• https://bbpress.org/
• https://codex.bbpress.org/releases/
• https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress/#developers
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3rXP8CGTe08
• https://bbpress.org/
• https://codex.bbpress.org/releases/
• https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress/#developers
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3rXP8CGTe08

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