CVE-2022-38144 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in gVectors Team wpForo Forum plugin <= 2.0.5 at WordPress.

Published: 2022-09-09

Score: 8.8 High

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

gVectors Team

wpForo Forum (WordPress plugin)

affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`<= 2.0.5`	affected	≤ 2.0.5

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:gvectors:wpforo_forum:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*

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Remediation

Vendor Solution

Update to 2.0.6 or higher version.

Tracking

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2022-40746	Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in gVectors Team wpForo Forum plugin <= 2.0.5 at WordPress.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact High

Integrity Impact High

Availability Impact High

User Interaction Required

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00109.

Exploitation none

Automatable no

Technical Impact total

References

Link	Providers
https://patchstack.com/database/vulnerability/wpforo/wordpress-wpforo-forum-plugin-2-0-5-cross-site-request-forgery-csrf-vulnerability/_s_id=cve
https://wordpress.org/plugins/wpforo/#developers

History

Wed, 23 Apr 2025 18:15:00 +0000

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

Subscriptions

Gvectors Wpforo Forum

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: Patchstack

Published: 2022-09-09T14:39:53.606Z

Updated: 2026-04-29T09:51:49.558Z

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

Link: CVE-2022-38144

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-03T10:45:52.681Z

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2022-09-09T15:15:14.463

Modified: 2025-04-23T18:16:01.697

Link: CVE-2022-38144

Redhat

No data.

OpenCVE Enrichment

No data.

Weaknesses

CWE-352

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