CVE-2025-8483

Discussion Board – WordPress Forum Plugin <= 2.5.5 - Authenticated (Subscriber+) Arbitrary Shortcode Execution

CVSS 6.3 MEDIUMEPSS 0.2%CWE-94

Vexday Risk Score

13Low

SSVC decision (CISA)

Track

No exploitation signal → monitor

CVSS 6.3EPSS 0.2%KEV nãoPoC —Nuclei —Metasploit —Patch —

Lifecycle

25 Oct 2025Published on NVD

Recommendation: Monitor — no exploitation signal at the moment.

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.

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L

Affected products

marketingfire · Discussion Board – WordPress Forum Plugin

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References

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=3382300%40wp-discussion-board&new=3382300%40wp-discussion-board&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/a09659bc-e42b-4f08-a1a1-23e226be1be9?source=cve