CVE-2026-12696

5.4 mediumEPSS 0.2%

Medium (5.4). EPSS 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The wpForo Forum WordPress plugin before 3.1.2 does not sanitize and escape a user profile field before outputting it inside an HTML attribute on the public participant profile page, allowing users with a subscriber-level account to inject JavaScript that executes in the browser of any visitor who views the profile, including a logged-in administrator.

Severity

CVSS 3.1

5.4 medium

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

EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 13% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE: CWE-79
Published: 2026-08-01
Modified: 2026-08-26
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

References

https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/0dde2d89-267f-4aca-b2f0-d086b15adff0/

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