CVE-2026-28561

4.8 mediumEPSS 0.3%

Medium (4.8) in gvectors wpforo forum. EPSS 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

wpForo Forum 2.4.14 contains a stored cross-site scripting vulnerability that allows administrators to inject persistent JavaScript via forum description fields echoed without output escaping across multiple theme template files. On multisite installations or with a compromised admin account, attackers set a forum description containing HTML event handlers that execute when any user views the forum listing.

Severity

CVSS 4.0

4.8 medium

CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:P/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:L/SI:L/SA:N

CVSS 3.1

4.8 medium

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

EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 18% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE: CWE-79
Published: 2026-02-28
Modified: 2026-06-17
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

gvectors:wpforo_forum

References

https://wordpress.org/plugins/wpforo/
https://wordpress.org/plugins/wpforo/#developers
https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/wpforo-forum-stored-xss-via-unescaped-forum-description-in-templates

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