CVE-2022-3180

Feb. 18, 2025, 6:15 p.m.

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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.

Product(s) Impacted

Product Versions
WPGateway Plugin for WordPress
  • up to 3.5

Weaknesses

CWE-290
Authentication Bypass by Spoofing
This attack-focused weakness is caused by incorrectly implemented authentication schemes that are subject to spoofing attacks.

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

Tags

security@wordfence.com
CWE-290
2025-02-11
CVE-2022-3180

Date

  • Published: Feb. 11, 2025, 10:15 p.m.
  • Last Modified: Feb. 18, 2025, 6:15 p.m.

Status : Awaiting Analysis

CVE has been recently published to the CVE List and has been received by the NVD.

More info

Source

security@wordfence.com

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