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Medium · 5.5 CVE-2026-28560 EUVD-2026-9109GHSA-qv3m-qhpr-9vhh

wpForo Forum 2.4.14 Stored XSS via Unsafe JSON Encoding in Inline Script

Published Feb 28, 2026 · Updated May 11, 2026 · Assigned by VulnCheck

Description

wpForo Forum 2.4.14 contains a stored cross-site scripting vulnerability that allows script injection via forum URL data output into an inline script block using json_encode without the JSON_HEX_TAG flag. Attackers set a forum slug containing a closing script tag or unescaped single quote to break out of the JavaScript string context and execute arbitrary script in all visitors' browsers.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
gVectors Team wpForo Forum 2.4 – < 2.4.16 2.4.16

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