CVE-2018-16613: 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 us

critical Affects wpforo (WordPress plugin). Feed 2026.10.29.1, updated 2026-10-28; published 2019-06-19; advisory modified 2026-06-17.

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 us

Package: wpforo (WordPress plugin) WordPress
Affected versions: <1.5.2
Fixed in: 1.5.2
Severity: critical CVSS 9.8
Exploitation: not on CISA KEV · EPSS 3% (86.0th percentile)
Published: 2019-06-19
Source: nvd

References

NVD record wpforo (WordPress plugin) advisories

Am I affected?

Find out in one command. phpwarden checks your WordPress install against this advisory and 20,000+ others, ranked by real-world exploitation (CISA KEV + EPSS). Free, offline, open data.

# one-time install
pip install phpwarden

# then
phpwarden wordpress /var/www/html

Or keep it checked automatically with the GitHub Action or a nightly cron; see WordPress docs.

Install docs How findings are ranked

Related advisories

CVE-2023-2249 high The wpForo Forum plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Local File Include, Server-Side Req same package: wpforo (WordPress plugin)
CVE-2018-11709 medium wpforo_get_request_uri in wpf-includes/functions.php in the wpForo Forum plugin before 1.4 same package: wpforo (WordPress plugin)
CVE-2018-11515 critical The wpForo plugin through 2018-02-05 for WordPress has SQL Injection via a search with the same package: wpforo (WordPress plugin)
CVE-2022-40200 critical Auth. (subscriber+) Arbitrary File Upload vulnerability in wpForo Forum plugin <= 2.0.9 on same package: wpforo (WordPress plugin)
CVE-2019-19111 medium The wpForo plugin 1.6.5 for WordPress allows XSS via the wp-admin/admin.php?page=wpforo-ph same package: wpforo (WordPress plugin)
CVE-2019-19112 medium The wpForo plugin 1.6.5 for WordPress allows XSS involving the wpf-dw-td-value class of da same package: wpforo (WordPress plugin)