CVE-2020-13693: An unauthenticated privilege-escalation issue exists in the bbPress plugin before 2.6.5 for WordPress when New User Registration is enabled

Critical severity · published May 29, 2020

CVE-2020-13693

An unauthenticated privilege-escalation issue exists in the bbPress plugin before 2.6.5 for WordPress when New User Registration is enabled

9.8

CVSS

43.9%

EPSS

On KEV

Description

An unauthenticated privilege-escalation issue exists in the bbPress plugin before 2.6.5 for WordPress when New User Registration is enabled.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack vector

Network

Complexity

Low

Privileges

None

User interaction

None

Confidentiality

High

Integrity

High

Availability

High

Scope

Unchanged

Exploitation

Is it being used?

Exploit prediction (EPSS)43.9% · higher than 99% of CVEs

Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet

CISA KEVNot listed

Ransomware campaign useNot known

Affected products

Which versions

Bbpress · Bbpress

before 2.6.5 · source: NVD

Affected product

Bbpress

All Bbpress CVEs

References

NVD

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-13693

CVE.org

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-13693

Exploit

http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/157885/WordPress-BBPress-2.5-Privilege-Escalation.html

Release Notes

https://bbpress.org/blog/2020/05/bbpress-2-6-5-is-out/

Release Notes

https://codex.bbpress.org/releases/

Release Notes

https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress/#developers