External Initialization of Trusted Variables or Data Stores in WordPress Popular Posts - CVE-2022-43468
Published: November 18, 2022
Vulnerability identifier: #VU69414
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 6.9 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2022-43468
CWE-ID: CWE-454
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to compromise the target system.
The vulnerability exists due to the affected plugin accepts untrusted external inputs to update certain internal variables. A remote attacker can pass specially crafted input to the application and manipulate the number of views for an article.
Affected software
WordPress Popular Posts
How to mitigate CVE-2022-43468
Install updates from vendor's website.
WordPress Popular Posts - update to 6.1.0