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CVE-2020-13693
An unauthenticated privilege-escalation issue exists in the bbPress plugin before 2.6.5 for WordPress when New User Registration is enabled.
Critical9.8EPSS 43.9%
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- mitre
Description
An unauthenticated privilege-escalation issue exists in the bbPress plugin before 2.6.5 for WordPress when New User Registration is enabled.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Critical9.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 43.9% · top 1.2% of all CVEs (6 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Critical 9.8.
Weakness
- n/a
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- Packagistbbpress/bbpressGHSA-mwxh-6j9v-45ph (opens in a new tab)
References (4)
- https://codex.bbpress.org/releases/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress/#developers (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://bbpress.org/blog/2020/05/bbpress-2-6-5-is-out/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/157885/WordPress-BBPress-2.5-Privilege-Escalation.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-mwxh-6j9v-45ph (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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