CVE-2020-13693

CriticalCVSS 9.8/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

Description

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

Metrics

CVSS 3.1 9.8/10CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected software

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	n/a

References

http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/157885/WordPress-BBPress-2.5-Privilege-Escalation.htmlExploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
https://bbpress.org/blog/2020/05/bbpress-2-6-5-is-out/Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
https://codex.bbpress.org/releases/Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress/#developersRelease Notes, Third Party Advisory
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/157885/WordPress-BBPress-2.5-Privilege-Escalation.htmlExploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
https://bbpress.org/blog/2020/05/bbpress-2-6-5-is-out/Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
https://codex.bbpress.org/releases/Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress/#developersRelease Notes, Third Party Advisory

Timeline

Published: May 29, 2020
Last modified: Jun 17, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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