CVE-2026-12696

The wpForo Forum WordPress plugin (versions before 3.1.2 ) is vulnerable to a Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) flaw. The root cause is the failure to sanitize and escape a user profile field (specifically the Profile Location Field ) before it is rendered inside an HTML attribute on the public p...

CVE-2026-12696 wpForo Forum < 3.1.2 - Subscriber+ Stored XSS via Profile Location Field

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 wh...