Quick answers
- Is CVE-2026-40767 exploited in the wild?
- No. Junglewise Threat Intelligence has no report of CVE-2026-40767 being exploited in the wild.
- How severe is CVE-2026-40767?
- High severity, with a CVSS score of 7.5, published 15 June 2026.
- Which products and versions are affected?
- gVectors Team wpForo Forum < 3.0.2.
- Is there a fix for CVE-2026-40767?
- No fixed version is recorded yet. Check the vendor's advisory in the references below. If you run it, Junglewise drafts a mitigation that fits your setup and applies it once you approve, with senior security engineers behind it.
- How is CVE-2026-40767 attacked?
- It is attacked over the network, in a network appliance.
- Am I affected by CVE-2026-40767?
- Check whether you run gVectors Team wpForo Forum at an affected version. Junglewise does that check for you around the clock: connect your code, cloud and domains, and it matches new vulnerabilities like this one against what you actually run and tells you when one reaches you.
Technical details
A broken access control vulnerability exists in the wpForo Forum plugin for WordPress due to improper preservation of permissions (CWE-281). The flaw allows an unauthenticated remote attacker to bypass authorization checks that should restrict access to specific functions or data. According to the CVSS vector, the impact is limited to high confidentiality loss, suggesting that attackers can read sensitive data but cannot necessarily modify it or crash the service. The vulnerability is resolved in version 3.0.2.
Affected products
- gVectors Team wpForo Forum < 3.0.2
Timeline
- 2026-03-04: other: Reported by researcher Dahmani Toumi
- 2026-04-21: advisory: Initial advisory published by Patchstack
- 2026-06-15: disclosed: NVD publication date