Vulnerabilites related to wpgateway - wpgateway
CVE-2022-3180 (GCVE-0-2022-3180)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-02-11 21:38
Modified
2025-03-14 17:01
Severity ?
VLAI Severity ?
EPSS score ?
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
Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jack Hopman | WPGateway |
Version: * ≤ 3.5 |
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Published
2025-02-11 22:15
Modified
2025-06-05 14:24
Severity ?
Summary
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References
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