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BBP Core – Expand bbPress powered forums with useful features, CVE-2024-9896

CVE, Research URL

CVE-2024-9896

Published on
Nov 02, 2024
Research Description
The BBP Core – Expand bbPress powered forums with useful features plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Reflected Cross-Site Scripting due to the use of add_query_arg without appropriate escaping on the URL in all versions up to, and including, 1.2.5. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that execute if they can successfully trick a user into performing an action such as clicking on a link.
Affected versions
max 1.2.6.
Status
vulnerable