{"answers":{"affected":"It affects 1 product.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-40206 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"No fix has been published for CVE-2022-40206 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.","what":"CVE-2022-40206 is a medium-severity missing authorization vulnerability in gVectors Team wpForo Forum (WordPress plugin), published on 8 Nov 2022. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2022-40206 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2022-40206 is a medium-severity missing authorization vulnerability in gVectors Team wpForo Forum (WordPress plugin), published on 8 Nov 2022. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.\nExploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-40206 in the wild and no public exploit code.\n\nAffected product: gVectors Team wpForo Forum (WordPress plugin). No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.\n\nTask:\n1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.\n2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.\n3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.\n4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.\n5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.\n\nReference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-40206/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-40206/index.md)","id":"CVE-2022-40206","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-40206/index.md","name":"CVE-2022-40206","record":{"aliases":["GHSA-vf5x-8r9f-vm4f"],"analysis":{"component_type":"cms_plugin","fix_type":"upgrade","impacts":["data_modify"],"network_reachable":"yes","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"WordPress plugin","requires_auth":"low_privilege","summary":"Authenticated users can modify the privacy status of any forum post due to missing authorization checks in the wpForo plugin.","user_interaction":"not_required","vuln_class":"missing_authorization"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"Patchstack","cpe":[{"product":"wpforo_forum","vendor":"gvectors"}],"cvss":{"score":6.3,"severity":"medium","source":"cna","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L","version":"3.1"},"cwes":[{"id":"CWE-639","name":"Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key"}],"description":"Insecure direct object references (IDOR) vulnerability in the wpForo Forum plugin \u003c= 2.0.5 on WordPress allows attackers with subscriber or higher user roles to mark any forum post as private/public.","ecosystems":[],"exploits":{"exploitdb":0,"first_seen":null,"github_poc":0,"max_poc_stars":null,"metasploit":0,"nuclei":0,"refs":[],"tier":"none_known"},"has_fix":null,"headline":"WordPress wpForo Forum plugin \u003c= 2.0.5 - Insecure direct object references (IDOR) vulnerability","id":"CVE-2022-40206","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":null,"product":null,"products":[],"type":"missing_authorization","year":"2022"},"n_packages":0,"n_references":2,"next":{"headline":"Privilege escalation in Intel(R) SUR software","id":"CVE-2022-40207"},"packages":[],"prev":{"headline":"WordPress wpForo Forum plugin \u003c= 2.0.5 - Insecure direct object references (IDOR) vulnerability","id":"CVE-2022-40205"},"products":["wpForo Forum (WordPress plugin)"],"published":"2022-11-08","related":[{"cvss_score":9.9,"headline":"wpForo Forum \u003c= 2.3.3 - Authenticated (Contributor+) SQL Injection","id":"CVE-2024-3200","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2024-06-01"},{"cvss_score":9.9,"headline":"WordPress wpForo Forum plugin \u003c= 2.0.9 - Auth. Arbitrary File Upload vulnerability","id":"CVE-2022-40200","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2022-11-17"},{"cvss_score":9.8,"headline":"Privilege escalation in n/a","id":"CVE-2018-16613","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2019-06-19"},{"cvss_score":8.8,"headline":"wpForo Forum 2.4.14 SQL Injection via Topics ORDER BY Parameter","id":"CVE-2026-28562","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2026-02-28"},{"cvss_score":8.8,"headline":"Server-side request forgery in wpForo Forum","id":"CVE-2023-2249","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2023-06-09"},{"cvss_score":8.8,"headline":"WordPress wpForo Forum plugin \u003c= 2.0.5 - Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability","id":"CVE-2022-38144","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2022-09-09"},{"cvss_score":7.5,"headline":"WordPress wpForo Forum plugin \u003c= 2.3.4 - Unauthenticated Sensitive Data Exposure vulnerability","id":"CVE-2024-43289","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2024-08-26"}],"sources":[{"class":"attribution","licence":"CVE Terms of Use (MITRE)","name":"CVE List","prefix":"CVE"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"US public information, NVD API terms","name":"NVD"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"CWE Terms of Use","name":"CWE (MITRE)"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"FIRST CVSS licence","name":"CVSS (FIRST)"}],"ssvc":{"automatable":"no","exploitation":"none","technical_impact":"partial"},"state":"PUBLISHED","updated":"2026-04-28","vendors":["gVectors Team"]},"summary":"Authenticated users can modify the privacy status of any forum post due to missing authorization checks in the wpForo plugin.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-40206/"}