CVE-2025-8483CWE-94code-injection

CVE-2025-8483

Medium · published October 25, 2025

CVSS v3.1
6.3
EPSS
0%
Percentile
17.2
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
6.3 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00264 · 17.2th percentile
Weakness
CWE-94 · Improper Control of Generation of Code ('Code Injection')
Published
2025-10-25T11:15Z
References (2)
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= · [email protected]https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/a09659bc-e42b-4f08-a1a1-23e226be1be9?source=cve · [email protected]
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 25 OCT 06:49Z
    Discussion Board – WordPress Forum Plugin <= 2.5.5 - Authenticated (Subscriber+) Arbitrary Shortcode Execution
    cvelistv5