CVE-2020-13693 — An unauthenticated privilege-escalation issue exists in the bbPress plugin befor

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

01What is this vulnerability?

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

02Affected products

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

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

• Patch to a fixed version listed in the vendor advisory (see references below).
• Mitigate with WAF rules, network egress filters, or feature flags where the patch is not yet available.
• Hunt historical logs for exploitation indicators — see Detection signatures below.

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

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07Related CVEs

No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

08Timeline

• Published: 2020-05-28T23:54:26.000Z
• Last modified: 2024-08-04T12:25:16.496Z

09References

• codex.bbpress.org — https://codex.bbpress.org/releases/
• wordpress.org — https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress/#developers
• bbpress.org — https://bbpress.org/blog/2020/05/bbpress-2-6-5-is-out/
• packetstormsecurity.com — http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/157885/WordPress-BBPress-2.5-Privilege-Esca…