WordPress wpForo Forum Plugin < 1.5.2 Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

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if (description)
{
  script_oid("1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.112294");
  script_version("2023-01-23T10:11:56+0000");
  script_tag(name:"last_modification", value:"2023-01-23 10:11:56 +0000 (Mon, 23 Jan 2023)");
  script_tag(name:"creation_date", value:"2019-06-20 14:40:00 +0200 (Thu, 20 Jun 2019)");
  script_tag(name:"cvss_base", value:"7.5");
  script_tag(name:"cvss_base_vector", value:"AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P");
  script_tag(name:"severity_vector", value:"CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H");
  script_tag(name:"severity_origin", value:"NVD");
  script_tag(name:"severity_date", value:"2020-08-24 17:37:00 +0000 (Mon, 24 Aug 2020)");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2018-16613");

  script_tag(name:"qod_type", value:"remote_banner");

  script_tag(name:"solution_type", value:"VendorFix");

  script_name("WordPress wpForo Forum Plugin < 1.5.2 Privilege Escalation Vulnerability");

  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);

  script_copyright("Copyright (C) 2019 Greenbone Networks GmbH");
  script_family("Web application abuses");
  script_dependencies("gb_wordpress_plugin_http_detect.nasl");
  script_mandatory_keys("wordpress/plugin/wpforo/detected");

  script_tag(name:"summary", value:"The WordPress plugin 'wpForo Forum' is prone to a privilege
  escalation vulnerability.");

  script_tag(name:"insight", value:"The plugin suffers from a privilege escalation vulnerability,
  whereby any registered forum user can escalate his privilege to become the forum administrator
  without any form of user interaction.");

  script_tag(name:"affected", value:"WordPress wpForo Forum plugin before version 1.5.2.");

  script_tag(name:"solution", value:"Update to version 1.5.2 or later.");

  script_xref(name:"URL", value:"https://github.com/9emin1/advisories/blob/master/wpForo-1-5-1.md");
  script_xref(name:"URL", value:"https://wpforo.com/community/wpforo-announcements/wpforo-1-5-2-is-released/");
  script_xref(name:"URL", value:"https://wordpress.org/plugins/wpforo/#developers");

  exit(0);
}

CPE = "cpe:/a:gvectors:wpforo_forum";

include("host_details.inc");
include("version_func.inc");

if( ! port = get_app_port( cpe: CPE ) )
  exit( 0 );

if( ! infos = get_app_version_and_location( cpe: CPE, port: port, exit_no_version: TRUE ) )
  exit( 0 );

version = infos["version"];
location = infos["location"];

if( version_is_less( version: version, test_version: "1.5.2" ) ) {
  report = report_fixed_ver( installed_version: version, fixed_version: "1.5.2", install_path: location );
  security_message( port: port, data: report );
  exit( 0 );
}

exit( 99 );