CVE-2022-3180 (GCVE-0-2022-3180)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-02-11 21:38
Modified
2025-03-14 17:01
Severity ?
9.8 (Critical) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • CWE-290 - Authentication Bypass by Spoofing
Summary
The WPGateway Plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation in versions up to, and including, 3.5. This allows unauthenticated attackers to create arbitrary malicious administrator accounts.
References
security@wordfence.comhttps://www.wordfence.com/blog/2022/09/psa-zero-day-vulnerability-in-wpgateway-actively-exploited-in-the-wild/Third Party Advisory
security@wordfence.comhttps://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/wordpress-plugins/wpgateway/wpgateway-35-unauthenticated-privilege-escalationThird Party Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Jack Hopman WPGateway Version: *   ≤ 3.5
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