CVE-2022-3688 (GCVE-0-2022-3688)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2022-11-21 00:00 – Updated: 2025-04-29 16:21
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Summary
The WPQA Builder WordPress plugin before 5.9 does not have CSRF check when following and unfollowing users, which could allow attackers to make logged in users perform such actions via CSRF attacks
Severity ?
8.8 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
Assigner
References
https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/03b2c6e6-b86e-41… exploitvdb-entrytechnical-description
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Unknown WPQA Builder Affected: 0 , < 5.9 (custom)
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Credits
Bikram Kharal
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