CVE-2026-73321
XenForo < 2.3.13 Uncontrolled Recursion DoS via BBCode Parser
- Published
- Sep 8, 2026
- Updated
- Sep 10, 2026
- Assigning CNA
- VulnCheck
- Evidence observed
- Sep 8, 2026
Primary CVSS
nvd · CVSS 4.0
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:X/V:X/RE:X/U:XLow · next 30 days
- Percentile
- 34.0%
- Model date
- Sep 21, 2026
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Summary
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.
Sources
1Proof-of-concept and technical write-up for CVE-2026-73321, a denial-of-service vulnerability in XenForo caused by deeply nested BBCode that exhausts PHP workers.
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