CVE-2026-12696 in wpForo Forum Plugin

Summary

by MITRE • 08/01/2026

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.

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• Responsible: WPScan
• Reservation: 06/19/2026
• Disclosure: 08/01/2026
• Moderation: accepted
• Entry: VDB-385178
• CPE: ready
• CWE: CWE-79 (confirmed)
• CVSS: 3.5 (VulDB)
• EPSS: 0.00000
• KEV: no
• Activities: low
• Sector: Hostingprovider

Sources

• MITRE: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-12696
• NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-12696
• CVE Details: https://www.cvedetails.com/cve/CVE-2026-12696/