Is bbpress (WordPress plugin) vulnerable?

WordPress bbpress has 2 known advisories in the phpwarden feed. Feed 2026.10.29.1, updated 2026-10-28.

2advisories
1critical
0on CISA KEV
1no fix recorded
CVETitleSeverityCVSSAffectedFixed in
CVE-2020-13693An unauthenticated privilege-escalation issue exists in the bbPress plugin before 2.6.5 for WordPress when New User Registration is enabled.critical9.8<2.6.52.6.5
CVE-2020-13487The bbPress plugin through 2.6.4 for WordPress has stored XSS in the Forum creation section, resulting in JavaScript execution at wp-admin/emedium4.8<=2.6.4–

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# PHP projects (recommended)
composer require --dev phpwarden/phpwarden
# then
vendor/bin/phpwarden wordpress /var/www/html

# or, without Composer
pipx install phpwarden   &&   phpwarden wordpress /var/www/html

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

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