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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.","severity":{"version":"3.1","score":6.3,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L","level":"medium","assessor":"cna","from":"cve"},"epss":{"day":"2026-11-09","score":0.00197,"percentile":0.09464,"model":"v2026.06.15"},"facts":{"in_kev":false,"known_exploited":false,"public_exploit":false,"fix_available":false},"cwes":["CWE-352"],"published":"2025-03-05T08:21:54Z","modified":"2026-06-17T08:39:08Z","products":[{"vendor":"johnjamesjacoby","product":"bbpress"}],"references":[{"url":"https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/2d776d94-8c81-4e88-bae3-946824a75c09?source=cve"},{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/bbpress/trunk/includes/users/signups.php#L151"},{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=\u0026sfph_mail=\u0026reponame=\u0026old=3247345%40bbpress\u0026new=3247345%40bbpress\u0026sfp_email=\u0026sfph_mail="},{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3247345/bbpress/branches/2.6/includes/users/capabilities.php"},{"url":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-1435"},{"url":"https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-3frh-5xx6-qrgx"}],"sources":{"cve":[{"id":"CVE-2025-1435","title":"bbPress \u003c= 2.6.11 - Cross-Site Request Forgery to Limited Privilege Escalation","description":"The bbPress plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in all versions up to, and including, 2.6.11. 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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.","status":"published","published":"2025-03-05T09:30:52Z","modified":"2025-03-05T09:30:53Z","cvss":[{"version":"3.1","score":6.3,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L","level":"medium"}],"cwes":["CWE-352"],"updated_at":"2026-11-02T15:00:09.078769Z"}],"nvd":[{"id":"CVE-2025-1435","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.","status":"published","published":"2025-03-05T09:15:10.267Z","modified":"2026-06-17T08:39:08.15Z","cvss":[{"version":"3.1","score":6.3,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L","level":"medium","assessor":"secondary"}],"cwes":["CWE-352"],"updated_at":"2026-11-02T14:10:53.101324Z"}]}}