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GHSA-7XF9-6RPX-2C4R

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2025-02-12 00:32 – Updated: 2025-02-12 15:31

Details

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

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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

Title

WPGateway <= 3.5 - Unauthenticated Privilege Escalation

Summary

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

Wordfence

References

URL

Tags

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

Impacted products

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

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GHSA-7XF9-6RPX-2C4R

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

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