CVE-2026-4666: medium-severity vulnerability in tomdever wpForo Forum
wpForo Forum <= 2.4.16 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Arbitrary Forum Post Modification via 'guestposting' Parameter
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13Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackcvss 6.5epss 0.3%
The wpForo Forum plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to the use of `extract($args, EXTR_OVERWRITE)` on user-controlled input in the `edit()` method of `classes/Posts.php` in all versions up to, and including, 2.4.16. The `post_edit` action handler in `Actions.php` passes `$_REQUEST['post']` directly to `Posts::edit()`, which calls `extract($args, EXTR_OVERWRITE)`. An attacker can inject `post[guestposting]=1` to overwrite the local `$guestposting` variable, causing the entire permission check block to be skipped. The nonce check uses a hardcoded `wpforo_verify_form` action shared across all 8 forum templates, so any user who can view any forum page obtains a valid nonce. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to edit the title, body, name, and email fields of any forum post, including posts in private forums, admin posts, and moderator posts. Content passes through `wpforo_kses()` which strips JavaScript but allows rich HTML.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
Affected products
tomdever · wpForo ForumRelated CVEs — tomdever wpForo Forum
In the same product, most dangerous first.
CVE-2023-2249HIGHwpForo Forum <= 2.1.7 - Authenticated (Subscriber+) Local File Include, Server-Side Request Forgery, and PHAR Deserialization via file_get_contentsEPSS 60.8%CVE-2026-1581HIGHwpForo Forum <= 2.4.14 - Unauthenticated Time-Based SQL InjectionEPSS 2.5%CVE-2026-110004MEDIUMwpForo Forum <= 3.2.2 - Authenticated (Subscriber+) Arbitrary File Deletion via Path Traversal via 'theme' ParameterEPSS 0.7%CVE-2026-0910HIGHwpForo Forum <= 2.4.13 - Authenticated (Subscriber+) PHP Object InjectionEPSS 0.6%CVE-2026-6248HIGHwpForo Forum <= 3.0.5 - Authenticated (Subscriber+) Arbitrary File Deletion via Custom Profile Field File PathEPSS 0.6%CVE-2026-5097HIGHwpForo Forum <= 2.4.17 - Unauthenticated SQL Injection via 'referer' ParameterEPSS 0.6%
References
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wpforo/tags/2.4.16/classes/Actions.php#L773https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wpforo/tags/2.4.16/classes/Posts.php#L283https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wpforo/tags/2.4.16/classes/Posts.php#L285https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wpforo/tags/2.4.16/includes/functions.php#L532https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?old_path=%2Fwpforo/tags/2.4.16&new_path=%2Fwpforo/tags/2.4.17https://ti.wordfence.io/vendors/patch/1885/downloadhttps://wordpress.org/plugins/wpforo/https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/049ffab1-677d-4112-9f1d-092ee01299f1?source=cve