CVE-2025-8483

MEDIUM

The Discussion Board - WordPress Forum Plugin <2.5.5 - RCE

Title source: llm

Description

The The Discussion Board – WordPress Forum Plugin plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to arbitrary shortcode execution in all versions up to, and including, 2.5.5. This is due to the software allowing users to execute an action that does not properly validate a value before running do_shortcode. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to execute arbitrary shortcodes.

References (2)

Core 2

Core References

Product

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=3382300%40wp-discussion-board&new=3382300%40wp-discussion-board&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=

Third Party Advisory

https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/a09659bc-e42b-4f08-a1a1-23e226be1be9?source=cve

Scores

CVSS v3 6.3

EPSS 0.0024

EPSS Percentile 14.9%

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 yes

Technical Impact total

Details

CWE

CWE-94

Status published

Products (1)

marketingfire/Discussion Board – WordPress Forum Plugin < 2.5.5

Published Oct 25, 2025

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026