CVE-2025-13746

Published: Jan 6, 2026Modified: Jun 17, 2026Deferred

6.4

Vector

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

Exploitability: 3.1 / Impact: 2.7

Source: security@wordfence.com (Secondary)

Description

The ForumWP – Forum & Discussion Board plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the User's Display Name in all versions up to, and including, 2.1.6 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.

Related CWEs

CWE-79

Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')

The product does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes user-controllable input before it is placed in output that is used as a web page that is served to other users.

References (4)

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/forumwp/tags/2.1.5/assets/front/js/tooltip.js#L25

Source: security@wordfence.com

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/forumwp/tags/2.1.5/includes/common/class-user.php#L906

Source: security@wordfence.com

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/forumwp/tags/2.1.5/templates/user-card.php#L57

Source: security@wordfence.com

https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/f0eb6dc5-98e2-4d88-98f8-8a63c939b047?source=cve

Source: security@wordfence.com

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