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CVE-2020-13693

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 43.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2020-05-29 · updated 2026-06-17

Description

An unauthenticated privilege-escalation issue exists in the bbPress plugin before 2.6.5 for WordPress when New User Registration is enabled.

Affected products

• bbPress: before 2.6.5 — fixed in 2.6.5

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: bbPress 2.6.5. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/157885/WordPress-BBPress-2.5-Privilege-Escalation.html
• https://bbpress.org/blog/2020/05/bbpress-2-6-5-is-out/
• https://codex.bbpress.org/releases/
• https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress/#developers
• http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/157885/WordPress-BBPress-2.5-Privilege-Escalation.html
• https://bbpress.org/blog/2020/05/bbpress-2-6-5-is-out/
• https://codex.bbpress.org/releases/
• https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress/#developers

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