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CVE-2026-42682: WordPress wpForo Forum plugin <= 3.0.6 - Broken Access Control vulnerability

Noroxi assessment

Priority: Monitor (action score 36/100)

  • The sources we track (CISA KEV, Exploit-DB, Metasploit, Nuclei, GitHub) show no public exploit code or exploitation in the wild.
  • Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days: 0.29% (FIRST EPSS).
  • Anyone who can reach it over the internet can trigger it. No account or password is required. No user action is required. No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.
  • According to CISA the attack is automatable: targets can be found by mass scanning.
  • Fixed version: Tomdever wpForo Forum 3.0.7.

Low priority for now. Upgrade to Tomdever wpForo Forum 3.0.7 or later.

Generated automatically from the record's data: CVSS (NVD and CNA), CISA KEV and SSVC, FIRST EPSS, exploit sources, fixed versions. How we calculate it

Primary sources: NVD · CVE.org · FIRST EPSS

Missing Authorization vulnerability in Tomdever wpForo Forum allows Exploiting Incorrectly Configured Access Control Security Levels. This issue affects wpForo Forum: from n/a through 3.0.6.

CriticalCVSS 9.1 · v3.1—No exploit Fix available
Published
Jun 1, 2026
Updated
Jul 22, 2026
EPSS
0.2% · 21th percentile

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Action score

36

Monitor

Low priority for now.

CVSS
36 / 40 · 9.1 / 10
CISA KEV
0 / 30 · Not listed
EPSS
0 / 30 · 0.2%

CISA SSVC decision

Exploitation
none
Automatable
yes
Technical impact
partial

Vulnrichment: CISA's decision-tree inputs.

CNA vs NVD score

NVD
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CNA · Patchstack
9.1
NVD has not scored this yet; the score shown is the CNA’s.

The score given by the assigning authority versus NVD’s independent score. A gap means the severity is contested.

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Versions reported by the vendor

Affected version ranges reported by the assigning authority (Patchstack). Independent of NVD's CPE analysis and usually ahead of it.

  • Tomdever wpForo Forum

    • n/a and later · up to and including 3.0.6affectedfixed in 3.0.7

Same product

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Other highest-scoring records for the same primary product.

  • CVE-2026-49767WordPress wpForo Forum plugin <= 3.1.0 - Broken Authentication vulnerability
    39Monitor
  • CVE-2026-49769WordPress wpForo Forum plugin <= 3.1.0 - PHP Object Injection vulnerability
    39Monitor
  • CVE-2026-40798WordPress wpForo Forum plugin <= 3.0.4 - SQL Injection vulnerability
    37Monitor

Published before and after this one in the same product

  • ← EarlierCVE-2026-4666Apr 17, 2026 · wpForo Forum <= 2.4.16 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Arbitrary Forum Post Modification via 'guestposting' Parameter
    26Monitor
  • ← EarlierCVE-2026-6248Apr 20, 2026 · wpForo Forum <= 3.0.5 - Authenticated (Subscriber+) Arbitrary File Deletion via Custom Profile Field File Path
    32Monitor
  • Later →CVE-2026-40767Jun 15, 2026 · WordPress wpForo Forum plugin < 3.0.2 - Broken Access Control vulnerability
    30Monitor

Remediation

Which version to upgrade to

Fix versions compiled from the vendor, package registries and Microsoft. Verify the vendor's note before upgrading.

Product / packageFixed versionSource
Tomdever wpForo Forum3.0.7Vendor (CNA)

Exploit status

No known public exploit

No public exploit has been observed yet. That doesn't mean you're safe, only that the bar is a little higher.

Research context

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Timeline

From publication to today: proof of concept, Metasploit module, CISA KEV and fix record. Dates are as reported by the sources.

No dated events beyond publication.

No history yet (it accumulates with the daily EPSS job).

Patch and commit links

Commit, PR and diff links among the references. A starting point for patch-diffing and variant hunting; fixes, not exploits.

No commit or PR link among the references.

Credits

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Variant candidates

Same product, same weakness class, within 18 months. If the patch missed the root cause, the sibling bug is here.

  • CVE-2025-66070165 days apartWordPress wpForo Forum plugin <= 2.4.10 - Broken Access Control vulnerability
    30Monitor
  • CVE-2026-466645 days apartwpForo Forum <= 2.4.16 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Arbitrary Forum Post Modification via 'guestposting' Parameter
    26Monitor
  • CVE-2026-91092113 days apartwpForo Forum <= 3.1.5 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Guest Post Takeover via wpforo_post_edit Action / Forged comment_author_email Cooki
    17Monitor

Chain candidates

An authentication bypass and a privilege-requiring bug in the same product, published close together: combined they may become an unauthenticated path.

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Bug bounty scope

No known public program.

Source: bounty-targets-data (public HackerOne, Bugcrowd, Intigriti, YesWeHack listings).

Technical details

Attack conditions

  • Anyone who can reach it over the internet can trigger it.
  • No account or password is required.
  • No user action is required.
  • No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.

If successful

Confidentiality
none
Integrity
high · data or configuration can be modified
Availability
high · the service can be disrupted
Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
None
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality impact
None
Integrity impact
High
Availability impact
High

Weakness class (CWE)

CWE-862 · Missing Authorization

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H

nvd-secondary

Attack context

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Change log

  1. Fix✗ → ✓

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References

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