CVE-2023-2309

MEDIUM NUCLEI

wpForo Forum < 2.1.9 - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting in Debug Mode

Title source: llm

Exploitation Summary

CVE-2023-2309 has a Nuclei detection template available — see the Nuclei card below for the Shodan/FOFA recon queries.

Description

The wpForo Forum WordPress plugin before 2.1.9 does not escape some request parameters while in debug mode, leading to a Reflected Cross-Site Scripting vulnerability.

Nuclei Templates (1)

wpForo Forum <= 2.1.8 - Cross-Site Scripting

MEDIUMVERIFIEDby s4e-io

References (1)

Core 1

Core References

Exploit, Third Party Advisory exploit vdb-entry technical-description

https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/1b3f4558-ea41-4749-9aa2-d3971fc9ca0d

Scores

CVSS v3 6.1

EPSS 0.0081

EPSS Percentile 52.2%

Attack Vector NETWORK

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

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment

Exploitation poc

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

Details

Status published

Products (1)

gvectors/wpforo_forum < 2.1.9

Published Jul 24, 2023

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026