CVE-2025-1435 (GCVE-0-2025-1435)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-03-05 08:21 – Updated: 2025-03-05 14:26
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Title
bbPress <= 2.6.11 - Cross-Site Request Forgery to Limited Privilege Escalation
Summary
The bbPress plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in all versions up to, and including, 2.6.11. This is due to missing or incorrect nonce validation on the bbp_user_add_role_on_register() function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to elevate their privileges to that of a bbPress Keymaster via a forged request granted they can trick a site administrator into performing an action such as clicking on a link. Rather than implementing a nonce check to provide protection against this vulnerability, which would break functionality, the plugin no longer makes it possible to select a role during registration.
Severity ?
6.3 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
CWE
  • CWE-352 - Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
johnjamesjacoby bbPress Affected: * , ≤ 2.6.11 (semver)
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Credits
Brian Mungai
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