CVE-2020-13693: Bbpress

Critical severity, CVSS 9.8. EPSS: 43.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

An unauthenticated privilege-escalation issue exists in the bbPress plugin before 2.6.5 for WordPress when New User Registration is enabled.

Affected products

• Bbpress Bbpress: before 2.6.5 (fixed in 2.6.5)

Published 2020-05-29. Last modified 2026-06-17.