CVE-2022-40206

MEDIUM

wpForo Forum <= 2.0.5 - Insecure Direct Object Reference in Post Privacy Setting

Title source: llm

Exploitation Summary

EIP tracks 1 public exploit for CVE-2022-40206. PoCs published by dhakalananda.

Description

Insecure direct object references (IDOR) vulnerability in the wpForo Forum plugin <= 2.0.5 on WordPress allows attackers with subscriber or higher user roles to mark any forum post as private/public.

Exploits (1)

github NO CODE 2 stars

by dhakalananda · poc

https://github.com/dhakalananda/cves/tree/main/CVE-2022-40206

View Code ZIP pw:eip

References (2)

Core 2

Core References

Product, Release Notes, Third Party Advisory

https://wordpress.org/plugins/wpforo/

Third Party Advisory

https://patchstack.com/database/vulnerability/wpforo/wordpress-wpforo-forum-plugin-2-0-5-insecure-direct-object-references-idor-vulnerability?_s_id=cve

Scores

CVSS v3 6.3

EPSS 0.0046

EPSS Percentile 36.0%

Attack Vector NETWORK

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

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment

Exploitation none

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

Details

CWE

CWE-639

Status published

Products (2)

gvectors/wpforo_forum < 2.0.5

gVectors Team/wpForo Forum (WordPress plugin) <= 2.0.5 - 2.0.5

Published Nov 08, 2022

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026