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CVE-2022-3180 (GCVE-0-2022-3180)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-02-11 21:38 – Updated: 2025-03-14 17:01

Title

WPGateway <= 3.5 - Unauthenticated Privilege Escalation

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.

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

Assigner

Wordfence

References

URL

Tags

	https://www.wordfence.com/blog/2022/09/psa-zero-d…
	https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabil…

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	Jack Hopman	WPGateway	Affected: * , ≤ 3.5 (semver)

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GSD-2022-3180

Vulnerability from gsd - Updated: 2023-12-13 01:19

Details

** RESERVED ** This candidate has been reserved by an organization or individual that will use it when announcing a new security problem. When the candidate has been publicized, the details for this candidate will be provided.

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CVE-2022-3180

Aliases

CVE-2022-3180

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GHSA-7XF9-6RPX-2C4R

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2025-02-12 00:32 – Updated: 2025-02-12 15:31

Details

Severity ?

9.8 (Critical)


                  
                    CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

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FKIE_CVE-2022-3180

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2025-02-11 22:15 - Updated: 2025-06-05 14:24

Severity ?

9.8 (Critical) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Summary

References

	URL	Tags
	security@wordfence.com	https://www.wordfence.com/blog/2022/09/psa-zero-day-vulnerability-in-wpgateway-actively-exploited-in-the-wild/	Third Party Advisory
	security@wordfence.com	https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/wordpress-plugins/wpgateway/wpgateway-35-unauthenticated-privilege-escalation	Third Party Advisory

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	wpgateway	wpgateway	*

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Sightings

Author	Source	Type	Date

Nomenclature

Seen: The vulnerability was mentioned, discussed, or observed by the user.
Confirmed: The vulnerability has been validated from an analyst's perspective.
Published Proof of Concept: A public proof of concept is available for this vulnerability.
Exploited: The vulnerability was observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.

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CVE-2022-3180 (GCVE-0-2022-3180)

GSD-2022-3180

GHSA-7XF9-6RPX-2C4R

FKIE_CVE-2022-3180

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