# bbPress <= 2.6.19 - Unauthenticated Sensitive Information Exposure via Single Reply Pages

- **ID:** WPSEC-2026-1119
- **Plugin:** bbPress (`bbpress`), https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress/
- **Affected versions:** all versions before 2.6.20
- **Fixed in:** 2.6.20 (Update to 2.6.20 or later.)
- **Severity:** Medium 5.3 (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N)
- **Weakness:** CWE-200
- **Usage among sites WPSec scans:** plugin Medium, affected versions Medium (as of 2026-10-16)
- **Attack surface analysis:** https://attacksurface.wpsec.com/plugin/bbpress
- **Fix released:** 2026-10-15
- **Published:** 2026-10-16
- **URL:** https://wpsec.com/vuln/WPSEC-2026-1119/

## Description

The bbPress plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Sensitive Information Exposure via single reply pages and public reply listings in all versions up to, and including, 2.6.19, due to a missing check on the visibility of a reply's parent topic. A single reply was rendered whenever the reply itself had a public status, even when its parent topic was not public (for example, a topic held for or returned to moderation), and public main-query reply listings did not exclude such replies. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to read the content of replies that belong to non-public topics.

## References

- https://wpsec.com/vuln/WPSEC-2026-1119/
- https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/bbpress/tags/2.6.20/
- https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress/

Source: WPSec, https://wpsec.com/vuln/WPSEC-2026-1119/

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