What is CVE-2025-8483?

CVE-2025-8483 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Marketingfire Discussion Board – Wordpress Forum Plugin, classified under Code Injection. CVSS score: 6.3/10. Published 2025-10-25.

How severe is CVE-2025-8483?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.3 out of 10.

RCE in Marketingfire Discussion Board – Wordpress Forum Plugin

CVE-2025-8483

The The Discussion Board – WordPress Forum Plugin plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to arbitrary shortcode execution in all versions up to, and including, 2.5.5. This is due to the software allowing users to execute an action that does not properly validate a value before running do_shortcode. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to execute arbitrary shortcodes.

Vulnerability class: RCE (Remote Code Execution)

EPSS: 0.002 (16.0th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 6.3 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L.

Affected products

Marketingfire Discussion Board – Wordpress Forum Plugin — versions 0

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-94 — Code Injection

References

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2025-8483?: CVE-2025-8483 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Marketingfire Discussion Board – Wordpress Forum Plugin, classified under Code Injection. CVSS score: 6.3/10. Published 2025-10-25.
How severe is CVE-2025-8483?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.3 out of 10.