CVE-2025-13746

MEDIUM

ForumWP - Forum & Discussion Board <= 2.1.6 - Authenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting via User Display Name

Title source: llm

Description

The ForumWP – Forum & Discussion Board plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the User's Display Name in all versions up to, and including, 2.1.6 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.

References (4)

Core 4

Core References

Product

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/forumwp/tags/2.1.5/assets/front/js/tooltip.js#L25

Product

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/forumwp/tags/2.1.5/includes/common/class-user.php#L906

Product

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/forumwp/tags/2.1.5/templates/user-card.php#L57

Third Party Advisory

https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/f0eb6dc5-98e2-4d88-98f8-8a63c939b047?source=cve

Scores

CVSS v3 6.4

EPSS 0.0019

EPSS Percentile 8.6%

Attack Vector NETWORK

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

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment

Exploitation none

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

Details

CWE

CWE-79

Status published

Products (1)

ultimatemember/ForumWP – Forum & Discussion Board < 2.1.6

Published Jan 06, 2026

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026