CVE-2022-3180

WPGateway <= 3.5 - Unauthenticated Privilege Escalation

State: Published
Severity: 9.8 Critical
Published: Feb 11, 2025
Updated: Mar 14, 2025
Reserved: Sep 12, 2022

Description

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.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	9.8 Critical	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H	CISA-ADP

Weaknesses

CWE-290 Authentication Bypass by Spoofing

Affected Products

Product	Versions
WPGatewayJack Hopman	3.5 and earlierAffected

References

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

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