PT-2026-22483
CVE-2026-28562
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Published
2026-02-28
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Updated
2026-03-05
Description by
CVSS 3.1
9.8
CriticalMetricsAV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions
wpForo version 2.4.14
Description
The software contains an unauthenticated SQL injection issue in the
Topics::get topics() function. The problem stems from ineffective sanitization using esc sql() on unquoted identifiers within the ORDER BY clause. An attacker can exploit this by manipulating the wpfob parameter with CASE WHEN payloads to extract credentials from the WordPress database in a blind boolean fashion.Recommendations
At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.
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