Vulnerability details

CVE-2026-28562

gVectors Team wpForo Forum

wpForo Forum 2.4.14 SQL Injection via Topics ORDER BY Parameter

CVSS 4.0
8.8High

Official description

wpForo 2.4.14 contains an unauthenticated SQL injection vulnerability in Topics::get_topics() where the ORDER BY clause relies on ineffective esc_sql() sanitization on unquoted identifiers. Attackers exploit the wpfob parameter with CASE WHEN payloads to perform blind boolean extraction of credentials from the WordPress database.

CVSS scores

ScoreVersionSourceVector
8.8High 4.0 CVEProject cvelistV5 (CNA) (VulnCheck) CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
8.2High 3.1 CVEProject cvelistV5 (CNA) (VulnCheck) CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:N

Affected products

VendorProductVersionsSource
gVectors Team wpForo Forum 2.4 ≤ v < 2.4.15 CVEProject cvelistV5 (CNA)

References and advisories

3
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Details

Published
2026-03-01
Last updated
2026-05-12
State
Published
Assigner (CNA)
VulnCheck

Exploit prediction (EPSS)

0.48%
Probability of exploitation in 30 days
41.8%
Percentile (among all CVEs)

SSVC assessment (CISA)

Automatable
Yes
Exploitation
None
Technical impact
Partial

Weaknesses (CWE)

  • CWE-89
    Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an SQL Command ('SQL Injection')