Vulnerabilities / wpForo Forum / WPSEC-2026-2221
wpForo Forum <= 3.2.2 - Authenticated (Subscriber+) Missing Authorization to Guest Post Modification
Medium 4.3
CWE-862Fixed in 3.2.3
- ID
- WPSEC-2026-2221
- Plugin
- wpForo Forum (wpforo)
- Affected
- all versions before 3.2.3
- Remediation
- Update to 3.2.3 or later.
- CVSS 3.1
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
- Weakness
- CWE-862
- Usage
- Plugin Medium · Affected versions Medium among sites WPSec scans, 2026-11-03
- Attack surface
- wpForo Forum on WPSec AttackSurface
- Fix released
- Published
Description
The wpForo Forum plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data via the post_edit action in all versions up to, and including, 3.2.2. This is because the Posts::edit() method treated any edit of a guest-authored post (userid 0) as guest posting whenever the request contained name and email fields, and then skipped the edit permission check, including for logged-in users. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers with subscriber-level access and above to modify the content of any guest-authored forum post.
References
- https://wpsec.com/vuln/WPSEC-2026-2221/
- https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/wpforo/tags/3.2.3/
- https://wordpress.org/plugins/wpforo/
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