CVE-2026-12697
MediumCVSS 5.4Exploitation Probability (EPSS)
Low risk6th percentile - higher than 6% of all known CVEs
Summary
The wpForo Forum WordPress plugin before 3.1.2 does not verify that an AI chat conversation belongs to the requesting user before deleting its messages, allowing users with a subscriber-level account to permanently delete the stored AI chat message history of any other user.
Risk Assessment
An attacker can permanently delete other users' AI chat history, potentially causing loss of important data or disruption of communication.
Recommendation
Update the wpForo Forum plugin to version 3.1.2 or later.
Other vulnerabilities in wpForo Forum
See all- CVE-2026-49767Critical
There is a vulnerability in wpForo Forum versions up to 3.1.0 related to unauthenticated broken authentication.
- CVE-2026-49769Critical
There is an unauthenticated PHP Object Injection vulnerability in wpForo Forum versions <= 3.1.0.
- CVE-2026-40798Critical
There is an unauthenticated SQL injection vulnerability in wpForo Forum versions up to 3.0.4.
- CVE-2026-42682Critical
The wpForo Forum plugin for WordPress has missing authorization, allowing exploitation of incorrectly configured access control security levels.
- CVE-2026-5097High
The wpForo Forum plugin for WordPress up to version 2.4.17 is vulnerable to SQL Injection via the 'referer' parameter. Insufficient escaping and lack of preparation on the SQL query allow unauthenticated attackers to append additional SQL queries, which can be used to extract sensitive information from the database.
- CVE-2026-12698Medium
The wpForo Forum WordPress plugin before 3.1.3 does not restrict which profile fields a member may set when editing their own account. This allows subscriber-level users to write administrator-controlled account-state and reputation fields on their own profile, including self-activating a pending or banned account and forging their forum reputation score.
- CVE-2026-12696Medium
The wpForo Forum WordPress plugin before 3.1.2 does not sanitize and escape a user profile field before outputting it inside an HTML attribute on the public participant profile page, allowing users with a subscriber-level account to inject JavaScript that executes in the browser of any visitor who views the profile, including a logged-in administrator.
- CVE-2026-15021Medium
The wpForo Forum plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'location' Profile Field in all versions up to and including 3.1.1 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This allows authenticated attackers with subscriber-level access or higher to inject arbitrary web scripts that execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.
- CVE-2026-57636High
The wpForo Forum plugin version 3.0.9 and earlier contains a SQL injection vulnerability exploitable by contributors. An attacker with contributor privileges can inject malicious SQL queries, potentially leading to unauthorized database access.
- CVE-2026-40767High
wpForo Forum versions below 3.0.2 have an issue with unauthenticated access that leads to broken access control.
Original NVD description (English source)
The wpForo Forum WordPress plugin before 3.1.2 does not verify that an AI chat conversation belongs to the requesting user before deleting its messages, allowing users with a subscriber-level account to permanently delete the stored AI chat message history of any other user.