CVE-2025-71279 is a critical security vulnerability affecting XenForo versions prior to 2.3.7, specifically impacting Passkey-based authentication, which an attacker could exploit to compromise user accounts. Rated with a CVSS score of 9.8 (Critical), this flaw has a network attack vector, low attack complexity, and requires no privileges or user interaction, leading to high impacts on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. Currently, there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code is unavailable, and its EPSS score indicates a very low probability of exploitation, despite some community discussion.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
>= 2.3.0, < 2.3.7CPE match | cpe:2.3:a:xenforo:xenforo:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
< 2.3.7CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:xenforo:xenforo:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 4.0
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X
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.