Vulnerability CVE-2018-16613
Published: 2019-06-19

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.

Type:

CWE-264

 (Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls)

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
7.5/10
6.4/10
10/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Partial
Partial
Partial
Affected software
Gvectors -> Wpforo forum 

 References:
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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