CVEvulnerability
CVE-2020-13693
9.8 CRITICAL
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2020-05-29
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 9.8 CRITICAL — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 7.5 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Description
An unauthenticated privilege-escalation issue exists in the bbPress plugin before 2.6.5 for WordPress when New User Registration is enabled.
Affected configurations
• bbpress bbpress (< 2.6.5)
References
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/157885/WordPress-BBPress-2.5-Privilege-Escalation.html Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://bbpress.org/blog/2020/05/bbpress-2-6-5-is-out/ Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
- https://codex.bbpress.org/releases/ Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
- https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress/#developers Release Notes, Third Party Advisory
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/157885/WordPress-BBPress-2.5-Privilege-Escalation.html Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://bbpress.org/blog/2020/05/bbpress-2-6-5-is-out/ Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
- https://codex.bbpress.org/releases/ Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
- https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress/#developers Release Notes, Third Party Advisory