Vulnerability in wpForo Forum — CVE-2026-120532
MediumSeverity
0.3%Estimated exploit probability
20,000+ sitesInstalls
3.2.3Fixed in
What to do now
Update wpForo Forum to 3.2.3 or later.
Affected versions
- Everything up to and including 3.2.2
Affected: wpForo Forum (plugin, wpforo)
What the vulnerability is
The wpForo Forum plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'post[body]' parameter in all versions up to, and including, 3.2.2 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.
Sources
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wpforo/tags/3.2.2/classes/Template.php#L1297
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wpforo/tags/3.2.2/classes/Template.php#L1373
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wpforo/tags/3.2.2/classes/Template.php#L2784
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wpforo/tags/3.2.2/includes/functions.php#L996
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?reponame=&new=3778162%40wpforo%2Ftags%2F3.2.3&old=3717441%40wpforo%2Ftags%2F3.2.2
- https://wordpress.org/plugins/wpforo/#developers