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Medium · 6.3 CVE-2025-1435 EUVD-2025-6031GHSA-3frh-5xx6-qrgx

bbPress <= 2.6.11 - Cross-Site Request Forgery to Limited Privilege Escalation

Published Mar 5, 2025 · Updated Apr 8, 2026 · Assigned by Wordfence

Description

The bbPress plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in all versions up to, and including, 2.6.11. This is due to missing or incorrect nonce validation on the bbp_user_add_role_on_register() function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to elevate their privileges to that of a bbPress Keymaster via a forged request granted they can trick a site administrator into performing an action such as clicking on a link. Rather than implementing a nonce check to provide protection against this vulnerability, which would break functionality, the plugin no longer makes it possible to select a role during registration.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
johnjamesjacoby bbPress ≤ 2.6.11 —

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