CVE-2026-28561

wpForo Forum 2.4.14 Stored XSS via Unescaped Forum Description in Templates

State: Published
Severity: 4.8 Medium
Published: Feb 28, 2026
Updated: May 11, 2026
Reserved: Feb 28, 2026

Description

wpForo Forum 2.4.14 contains a stored cross-site scripting vulnerability that allows administrators to inject persistent JavaScript via forum description fields echoed without output escaping across multiple theme template files. On multisite installations or with a compromised admin account, attackers set a forum description containing HTML event handlers that execute when any user views the forum listing.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
4.0	4.8 Medium	CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:P/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:L/SI:L/SA:N	VulnCheck
3.1	5.5 Medium	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N	VulnCheck

Weaknesses

CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')

Affected Products

Product	Versions
wpForo ForumgVectors Team	2.4 to before 2.4.16Affected 2.4.16Not affected

References

wpForo Forum WordPress Pluginproduct
wpForo Forum Contributors & Developerspatch
VulnCheck Advisory: wpForo Forum 2.4.14 Stored XSS via Unescaped Forum Description in Templatesthird-party-advisory

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