CVE-2026-28561: Gvectors Wpforo Forum

Medium severity, CVSS 4.8. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

wpForo Forum 2.4.14 contains a stored cross-site scripting vulnerability that allows administrators to inject persistent JavaScript via forum description fields echoed without output escaping across multiple theme template files. On multisite installations or with a compromised admin account, attackers set a forum description containing HTML event handlers that execute when any user views the forum listing.

Affected products

• Gvectors Wpforo Forum: from 2.4.0, before 2.4.16 (fixed in 2.4.16)

Published 2026-02-28. Last modified 2026-06-17.