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    2 vulnerabilities found for Discussion Board – WordPress Forum Plugin by marketingfire

    CVE-2025-8483 (GCVE-0-2025-8483)

    Vulnerability from nvd – Published: 2025-10-25 06:49 – Updated: 2026-04-08 17:12
    VLAI
    Title
    Discussion Board – WordPress Forum Plugin <= 2.5.5 - Authenticated (Subscriber+) Arbitrary Shortcode Execution
    Summary
    The The Discussion Board – WordPress Forum Plugin plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to arbitrary shortcode execution in all versions up to, and including, 2.5.5. This is due to the software allowing users to execute an action that does not properly validate a value before running do_shortcode. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to execute arbitrary shortcodes.
    Severity
    6.3 (Medium)
    CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
    SSVC
    Exploitation: none Automatable: yes Technical Impact: total
    CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)
    CWE
    • CWE-94 - Improper Control of Generation of Code ('Code Injection')
    Assigner
    References
    Impacted products
    Credits
    Kishan Vyas
    Show details on NVD website
    To clipboard 

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    CVE-2025-8483 (GCVE-0-2025-8483)

    Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-10-25 06:49 – Updated: 2026-04-08 17:12
    VLAI
    Title
    Discussion Board – WordPress Forum Plugin <= 2.5.5 - Authenticated (Subscriber+) Arbitrary Shortcode Execution
    Summary
    The The Discussion Board – WordPress Forum Plugin plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to arbitrary shortcode execution in all versions up to, and including, 2.5.5. This is due to the software allowing users to execute an action that does not properly validate a value before running do_shortcode. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to execute arbitrary shortcodes.
    Severity
    6.3 (Medium)
    CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
    SSVC
    Exploitation: none Automatable: yes Technical Impact: total
    CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)
    CWE
    • CWE-94 - Improper Control of Generation of Code ('Code Injection')
    Assigner
    References
    Impacted products
    Credits
    Kishan Vyas
    Show details on NVD website
    To clipboard 

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