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1 vulnerability by Jack Hopman

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

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-02-11 21:38 – Updated: 2025-03-14 17:01
VLAI?
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
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Jack Hopman WPGateway Affected: * , ≤ 3.5 (semver)
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