CVE-2020-13487

MEDIUM4.8EPSS 0.58%

bbPress stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the Forum creation section

Published: 5/24/2022Modified: 4/25/2024

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 packages (1)

Packagist/bbpress/bbpressfrom 0, <= 2.6.4

CVSS scores

Source	Version	Severity	Vector
osv	CVSS 3.1	MEDIUM4.8	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

References (6)

ADVISORYhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-13487
PATCHhttps://github.com/bbpress/bbPress
WEBhttps://bbpress.org
WEBhttps://codex.bbpress.org/releases
WEBhttps://wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress/#developers
WEBhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3rXP8CGTe08