CVE-2022-38070 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

Privilege Escalation (subscriber+) vulnerability in Pop-up plugin <= 1.1.5 at WordPress.

Published: 2022-09-09

Score: 5.4 Medium

EPSS: < 1% Very Low

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions

Pop-ups

Pop-up (WordPress plugin)

affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`<= 1.1.5`	affected	≤ 1.1.5

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:mypopups:pop-up:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*

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Remediation

Vendor Solution

Update to 1.1.6 or higher version.

Tracking

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2022-40675	Privilege Escalation (subscriber+) vulnerability in Pop-up plugin <= 1.1.5 at WordPress.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required Low

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact Low

Availability Impact Low

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00369.

Exploitation none

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

References

Link	Providers
https://patchstack.com/database/vulnerability/pop-up-pop-up/wordpress-pop-up-plugin-1-1-5-privilege-escalation-vulnerability/_s_id=cve
https://wordpress.org/plugins/pop-up-pop-up/#developers

History

Thu, 20 Feb 2025 20:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics		ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

Subscriptions

Mypopups Pop-up

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: Patchstack

Published: 2022-09-09T14:39:52.211Z

Updated: 2026-04-28T16:07:46.682Z

Reserved: 2022-08-09T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2022-38070

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-03T10:45:52.645Z

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2022-09-09T15:15:14.197

Modified: 2024-11-21T07:15:43.183

Link: CVE-2022-38070

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses

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