CVE-2020-13693 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

An unauthenticated privilege-escalation issue exists in the bbPress plugin before 2.6.5 for WordPress when New User Registration is enabled.

Published: 2020-05-28

Score: 9.8 Critical

EPSS: 41.3% Moderate

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions

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n/a

affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`n/a`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:bbpress:bbpress:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*

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Remediation

No vendor fix or workaround currently provided.

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Tracking

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
Github GHSA	GHSA-mwxh-6j9v-45ph	bbPress unauthenticated privilege-escalation

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact High

Integrity Impact High

Availability Impact High

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Low

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact Partial

Integrity Impact Partial

Availability Impact Partial

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.41295.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

References

Link	Providers
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/157885/WordPress-BBPress-2.5-Privilege-Escalation.html
https://bbpress.org/blog/2020/05/bbpress-2-6-5-is-out/
https://codex.bbpress.org/releases/
https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress/#developers

History

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Subscriptions

Bbpress Bbpress

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2020-05-28T23:54:26.000Z

Updated: 2024-08-04T12:25:16.496Z

Reserved: 2020-05-28T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2020-13693

Vulnrichment

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NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2020-05-29T00:15:10.270

Modified: 2024-11-21T05:01:45.127

Link: CVE-2020-13693

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses

NVD-CWE-noinfo

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