WordPress Plugin Vulnerabilities

bbPress < 2.6.12 - Cross-Site Request Forgery to Limited Privilege Escalation

Description

The bbPress plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in all versions up to, and including, 2.6.11. This is due to missing or incorrect nonce validation on the bbp_user_add_role_on_register() function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to elevate their privileges to that of a bbPress Keymaster via a forged request granted they can trick a site administrator into performing an action such as clicking on a link. Rather than implementing a nonce check to provide protection against this vulnerability, which would break functionality, the plugin no longer makes it possible to select a role during registration.

Affects Plugins

Fixed in 2.6.12

References

Classification

Miscellaneous

Original Researcher
Brian Mungai
Verified
No

Timeline

Publicly Published
2025-03-04 (about 1 year ago)
Added
2025-03-04 (about 1 year ago)
Last Updated
2025-03-05 (about 1 year ago)

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