Medium severity6.3NVD Advisory· Published Oct 25, 2025· Updated Apr 15, 2026

CVE-2025-8483

Description

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.

Affected products

WordPress/Discussion Boardllm-fuzzy
Range: <=2.5.5
Package: https://wordpress.org/plugins/discussion-board

Patches

No patches discovered yet.

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References

plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changesetnvd
www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/a09659bc-e42b-4f08-a1a1-23e226be1be9nvd

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