CVE-2018-16613 describes a critical privilege escalation vulnerability in the wpForo Forum plugin for WordPress, affecting versions prior to 1.5.2. A registered forum user can exploit an issue in the update function to gain administrator privileges without any user interaction. With a CVSS score of 9.8 (Critical), this vulnerability has a network attack vector, low attack complexity, and high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While no active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion has been observed, the high FAUCET Risk Score of 81/100 indicates its potential severity.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
< 1.5.2CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:gvectors:wpforo_forum:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.3 Bluesky, 0.3 Mastodon, and 2.4 GitHub mentions.
No media coverage found for this CVE.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.