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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

KEVintel KEV

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

SSVC

Exploitation: none Automatable: yes Technical Impact: total

CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)

CWE

CWE-290 - Authentication Bypass by Spoofing

Assigner

Wordfence

References

2 references

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

Impacted products

1 product

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

KEVintel KEV

Known Exploited Vulnerability - GCVE BCP-07 Compliant

KEV entry ID: 8070f0d2-4b37-4936-bfe0-920ff97209b9

Vulnerability ID: CVE-2022-3180

Status: Confirmed

Status Updated: 2022-09-13 08:50 UTC

Exploited: Yes

Timestamps

First Seen: 2022-09-13

Asserted: 2022-09-13

Scope

Evidence

Type: Public Report

Signal: Successful Exploitation

Confidence: 70%

Source: kevintel

Details

Feed	KEVIntel (kevintel.com)
Title	WPGateway <= 3.5 - Unauthenticated Privilege Escalation
Vendor	Jack Hopman
Product	WPGateway
Added Date	2022-09-13T08:50:53.000Z
Cvss Score	9.8
Epss Score	0.27791
Cvss Severity	CRITICAL
Epss Percentile	0.96148
Used In Malware	unknown
Ahead Of Cisa Kev	None
Not Yet In Cisa Kev	True

References

Created: 2026-06-19 12:47 UTC | Updated: 2026-06-19 12:47 UTC

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FKIE_CVE-2022-3180

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2025-02-11 22:15 - Updated: 2026-06-17 04:59

KEVintel KEV

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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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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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

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CVE-2022-3180

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Sightings

Author	Source	Type	Date	Other

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.

Detection rules are retrieved from Rulezet.

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

KEVintel KEV

Known Exploited Vulnerability - GCVE BCP-07 Compliant

Timestamps

Scope

Evidence

Public Report Successful Exploitation Confidence: 70% Source: kevintel

Details

References

FKIE_CVE-2022-3180

GHSA-7XF9-6RPX-2C4R

GSD-2022-3180

Tags

Sightings

Nomenclature