CVE-2020-13693
unknown
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
1.0
Description
bbPress unauthenticated privilege-escalation
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
30%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.
✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here withsource_tier=community-verified.
Exploits
Public proof-of-concept code below. AS-IS, for defenders and authorised testing only.
Exploit-DB
WordPress Plugin BBPress 2.5 - Unauthenticated Privilege Escalation
Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.
Package impact
| Ecosystem | Package | Vulnerable | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Packagist | bbpress/bbpress | <2.6.5 | 2.6.5 |
References
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-13693
- https://bbpress.org/blog/2020/05/bbpress-2-6-5-is-out
- https://codex.bbpress.org/releases
- https://github.com/bbpress/bbPress
- https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress/#developers
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/157885/WordPress-BBPress-2.5-Privilege-Escalation.html
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.