wpForo Forum <= 2.0.9 - Authenticated (Subscriber+) HTML Injection

5.4
Improper Neutralization of Special Elements in Output Used by a Downstream Component ('Injection')
CVE CVE-2022-38055
CVSS 5.4 (Medium)
Publicly Published December 7, 2022
Last Updated April 12, 2023
Researcher Dhakal Ananda

Description

The wpForo Forum plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to HTML Injection in versions up to, and including, 2.0.9. This is due to insufficient escaping and sanitization of user supplied input. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level permissions and above to inject HTML content on pages.

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1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug wpforo (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Remediation Update to version 2.1.0, or a newer patched version
Affected Version
  • <= 2.0.9
Patched Version
  • 2.1.0

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