CVE-2023-2249 Information

Description

The wpForo Forum plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Local File Include Server-Side Request Forgery and PHAR Deserialization in versions up to and including 2.1.7. This is due to the insecure use of file_get_contents without appropriate verification of the data being supplied to the function. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers with minimal permissions such as a subscriber to retrieve the contents of files like wp-config.php hosted on the system perform a deserialization attack and possibly achieve remote code execution and make requests to internal services.

Reference

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wpforo/tags/2.1.7/classes/Actions.php#L444 https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/800fa098-b29f-4979-b7bd-b1186a4dafcb?source=cve https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wpforo/tags/2.1.8/classes/Actions.php#L437