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CVE-2022-40223

WordPress SearchWP premium plugin <= 4.2.5 - Broken Authentication vulnerability

Medium5.4EPSS 0.55%
Published
Updated
Reserved
Assigned by
Patchstack

Description

Nonce token leakage and missing authorization in SearchWP premium plugin <= 4.2.5 on WordPress leading to plugin settings change.

Timeline

  1. ID reserved

    By Patchstack

  2. · 55 days later

    Published

  3. · 3 years later

    Record updated

Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.

Scores

CVSS scores of CVE-2022-40223, by who scored it
Scored byCVSSScoreVector
PatchstackCNA (assigner)3.1Medium5.4CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L
NVDNVD · Modified3.1Medium4.3CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
0.55% · top 54% of all CVEs (7 Nov 2026)
CISA SSVC
Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.4.

Weakness

Affected products

What to do

Solution: Update to 4.2.6 or higher version.

References (2)

Sources

The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.

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