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Vulnerability record · CVE-2026-73321 · published 8 September 2026

CVE-2026-73321: Xenforo vulnerability

Xenforo · Xenforo

XenForo before 2.3.13 contains an uncontrolled recursion vulnerability in the BBCode parser that allows authenticated attackers to cause persistent denial of service by submitting a post with deeply nested BBCode tags. Attackers can craft a single malicious post with sufficient nesting depth to exceed PHP's stack limit, causing fatal errors that repeatedly terminate PHP-FPM workers for all visitors rendering the affected thread.

7.1 CVSS 4.0 High EPSS 0.61% · top 52.7% CWE-674 · CWE-674
7.1CVSS 4.0 base score
0.61%EPSS exploitation probability, 30 days
NoNot in CISA KEV
1Affected product versions listed by NVD
5References, 2 tagged exploit
11 Sep 2026Last modified by NVD

Description

XenForo before 2.3.13 contains an uncontrolled recursion vulnerability in the BBCode parser that allows authenticated attackers to cause persistent denial of service by submitting a post with deeply nested BBCode tags. Attackers can craft a single malicious post with sufficient nesting depth to exceed PHP's stack limit, causing fatal errors that repeatedly terminate PHP-FPM workers for all visitors rendering the affected thread.

CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:

Affected products

1 vulnerable configurations from NVD's CPE data, grouped by vendor and product.

References

LinkTags
https://bombobombone.github.io/posts/cve-2026-73321/ ExploitThird Party Advisory
https://github.com/BomboBombone/CVE-2026-73321 ExploitThird Party Advisory
https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/xenforo-uncontrolled-recursion-dos-via-bbcode-parser Third Party Advisory
https://xenforo.com/community/threads/security-fixes-released-for-all-xenforo-and-media-gallery-versions-2-2-0-2-3-12.23 Release Notes
https://xenforo.com/community/threads/xenforo-2-3-13-and-add-ons-released-includes-security-fixes.239857/ Release Notes

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Source: NIST National Vulnerability Database (record CVE-2026-73321), CISA KEV, FIRST EPSS (scores of 2026-09-26). This page is refreshed as NVD updates the record.