CVE-2022-1609 (GCVE-0-2022-1609)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2024-01-16 15:52
Modified
2025-06-02 15:10
Severity ?
9.8 (Critical) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
Summary
The School Management WordPress plugin before 9.9.7 contains an obfuscated backdoor injected in it's license checking code that registers a REST API handler, allowing an unauthenticated attacker to execute arbitrary PHP code on the site.
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