Vulnerability in wpForo Forum — CVE-2026-5097

What to do now

Update wpForo Forum to 3.0.0 or later.

Affected versions

• Everything up to and including 2.4.17

The wpForo Forum plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to SQL Injection via the 'referer' parameter in all versions up to, and including, 2.4.17. This is due to insufficient escaping on the user supplied parameter and lack of sufficient preparation on the existing SQL query. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to append additional SQL queries into already existing queries that can be used to extract sensitive information from the database.

This description is reproduced verbatim from the public vulnerability record.

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wpforo/tags/2.4.16/includes/functions.php#L3063
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wpforo/tags/2.4.16/includes/functions.php#L828
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wpforo/tags/2.4.16/modules/revisions/Revisions.php#L169
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wpforo/tags/2.4.16/modules/revisions/classes/Actions.php#L105
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wpforo/tags/2.4.16/modules/revisions/classes/Actions.php#L30
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?old=3483044&old_path=%2Fwpforo%2Ftags%2F2.4.17&new=3500199&new_path=%2Fwpforo%2Ftags%2F3.0.0

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