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wpForo Forum <= 2.0.9 — Authenticated (Subscriber+) HTML Injection

CVE-2022-38055Published · Updated

Action summary

Affected: ≤2.0.9Update to 2.1.0 or newer

All remediation steps
Severity
Medium5.4
CVSS
5.4
CVSS 3.1 · CNA (Wordfence)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
What does this vector mean?
AV:N Attack vector
Network
AC:L Attack complexity
Low
PR:L Privileges required
Low
UI:N User interaction
None
S:U Scope
Unchanged
C:L Confidentiality
Low
I:L Integrity
Low
A:N Availability
None
Weakness
CWE-74 Improper Neutralization of Special Elements in Output Used by a Downstream Component
Required access
Unknown
Exploit prediction (EPSS)
No score
CISA KEV
Not listed

Am I affected?

wpForo Forum wpforo

  1. Affected≤ 2.0.9
  2. Patched in2.1.0

Update to 2.1.0 or newer.

You are affected if you run ≤ 2.0.9. Version 2.1.0 and later are not affected by this issue.

  • Check your version: in wp-admin go to Plugins → Installed Plugins and read the version under wpForo Forum.
  • No admin access? Run a passive check of your site. It reads public files only.

What to do

  1. Update to version 2.1.0, or a newer patched version
  2. Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
  3. Watch wpForo Forum to get an email when the next vulnerability is published.

Advisory

Source description from Wordfence Intelligence, credited to Dhakal Ananda.

The wpForo Forum plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to HTML Injection in versions up to, and including, 2.0.9. This is due to insufficient escaping and sanitization of user supplied input. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level permissions and above to inject HTML content on pages.

Exploits & references

Proof-of-concept & detection

No public proof-of-concept or detection template is known for this vulnerability.

Advisories & patches

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Medium6.4Authenticated (Subscriber+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Reply Body in Moderation Forms
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High7.5Unauthenticated SQL Injection via 'href[locale]' Parameter
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Medium6.5Authenticated (Subscriber+) Arbitrary File Deletion via Path Traversal via 'theme' Parameter
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Timeline

  1. CVE published

    Severity medium, CVSS 5.4

  2. Record last updated

Sources & licenses

Wordfence record
Vulnerability data
Wordfence Intelligence. [object Object] Licensed under the CC BY-SA 4.0.
CVE® identifiers
[object Object]. Used under the CVE Program. CVE® is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation.
CVSS / CWE
National Vulnerability Database (NVD), shown unmodified. This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.
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