CVE-2022-3343 (GCVE-0-2022-3343)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2023-01-09 22:13
Modified
2025-04-09 19:21
Severity ?
3.5 (Low) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
CWE
Summary
The WPQA Builder WordPress plugin before 5.9.3 (which is a companion plugin used with Discy and Himer Discy WordPress themes) incorrectly tries to validate that a user already follows another in the wpqa_following_you_ajax action, allowing a user to inflate their score on the site by having another user send repeated follow actions to them.
References
contact@wpscan.comhttps://wpscan.com/vulnerability/e507b1b5-1a56-4b2f-b7e7-e22f6da1e32aExploit, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/e507b1b5-1a56-4b2f-b7e7-e22f6da1e32aExploit, Third Party Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Unknown WPQA Builder Version: 0   < 5.9.3
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   Unknown Discy Version: 0   < 5.5.3
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   Unknown Himer Version: 0   < 1.9.3
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