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Privilege escalation in wpForo Forum via secondary group IDs

Priority LOW 35CWE-269Published · Updated

Key facts

Attack vector
Network
Privileges required
Low
User interaction
None
Attack complexity
High
Impact type
Privilege escalation
Confidentiality · integrity · availability
High · High · High
Fix status
No fix listed

Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CNA. Fix status from CNA. Impact type from CWE-269.

Summary

The wpForo Forum plugin for WordPress is affected up to and including 3.2.2. A type confusion flaw in the secondary group check of the profile update handler (CWE-269) lets authenticated users with Subscriber access and above add their own secondary group IDs, including the wpForo Administrator group. An attacker who gets that role can change forum-wide access policies and edit content owned by other users.

Written with Claude Haiku 5.5 from the sources below · 2026-11-07

Description from the CNA

The wpForo Forum plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Privilege Escalation in all versions up to, and including, 3.2.2 via the `data[secondary_groupids]` parameter of the `wpforo_action_profile_update` POST handler. This is due to a type-confusion flaw in the secondary_groupids authorization guard within the `Members::update()` function in `classes/Members.php`, where casting a scalar CSV string (e.g. `"0,1"`) with `(array)` before `array_map('intval', …)` and `array_filter()` produces an empty array — causing the guard's outer conditional, and the else-branch that would otherwise strip the field from the update, to be bypassed entirely — while `encode()`/`decode()` downstream correctly explodes the original CSV and persists the attacker-supplied group IDs to `wp_wpforo_profiles.secondary_groupids`. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to escalate their forum privileges to wpForo Administrator by injecting the privileged Admin group ID, granting access to the Forum Accesses editor and the ability to rewrite forum-wide capability policies for all members and edit arbitrary content owned by other users. Exploitation requires the attacker to have at least 3 approved wpForo posts to satisfy the plugin's default `min_number_posts_to_edit_account` antispam gate, along with a valid wpforo nonce obtained from their own account profile form.

Why it matters now

Exploitation None reported CISA SSVC · not in CISA KEV
EPSS 0.00513 43rd percentileScored 2026-11-07
Fix No fix listed No fixed version in the sources yet

SSVC decision points

CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3

Exploitation
None
Automatable
No
Technical impact
Total

The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versionsFixed inStatusSource
gVectors TeamwpForo Forumup to 3.2.2—No fix listedCNA
  • wpForo Forum VendorgVectors Team Affected up to 3.2.2 Fixed in — No fix listed CNA

CPE names Threatist (inferred) · 1

Inferred from how NVD named this product before; not given by a source.

CPEVersionsRoleVendor
cpe:2.3:a:gvectors:wpforo_forum:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*——gVectors Team
  • cpe:2.3:a:gvectors:wpforo_forum:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* Versions — — ·gVectors Team

Remediation

The sources list no fixed version for wpForo Forum.

Written with Claude Haiku 5.5 from the sources below · 2026-11-07

Timeline

  1. 2026-11-07 Threatist record created from CVE-2026-119164
  2. 2026-11-07 Alias added: GHSA-732c-5rpv-qgr5
  3. 2026-11-08 Priority changed: MEDIUM → LOW
  4. 2026-11-08 CISA SSVC decision points changed

References

  • TI-2020-14828 A Remote Code Execution vulnerability exists in the gVectors wpDiscuz plugin 7.0 through… CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 10.0
  • TI-2026-17809 Voltronic Power SNMP Web Pro 1.1 Path Traversal via upload.cgi CVSS 4.0HIGH 8.7
  • TI-2023-02108 Server-side request forgery in gVectors Team wpForo Forum CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.8
  • TI-2023-02165 wpForo Forum < 2.1.9 - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 6.1
  • TI-2020-10702 A SQL injection issue in the gVectors wpDiscuz plugin 5.3.5 and earlier for WordPress… CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8
  • TI-2026-36676 WordPress wpForo Forum plugin <= 3.1.0 - Broken Authentication vulnerability CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8
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Sources