CVE-2022-4120 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

The Stop Spammers Security | Block Spam Users, Comments, Forms WordPress plugin before 2022.6 passes base64 encoded user input to the unserialize() PHP function when CAPTCHA are used as second challenge, which could lead to PHP Object injection if a plugin installed on the blog has a suitable gadget chain

Published: 2022-12-26

Score: 9.8 Critical

EPSS: 6.8% 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

Unknown

Stop Spammers Security | Block Spam Users, Comments, Forms

unaffected

Version	Status	Constraints
`0`	affected	< 2022.6

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:trumani:stop_spammers:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*

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Remediation

No vendor fix or workaround currently provided.

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Tracking

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Advisories

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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 None

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.06754.

Exploitation poc

Automatable yes

Technical Impact total

References

Link	Providers
https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/e8bb79db-ef77-43be-b449-4c4b5310eedf

History

Mon, 14 Apr 2025 14:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics		ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'yes', 'Exploitation': 'poc', 'Technical Impact': 'total'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

Subscriptions

Trumani Stop Spammers

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: WPScan

Published: 2022-12-26T12:28:19.897Z

Updated: 2025-04-14T13:24:34.260Z

Reserved: 2022-11-22T15:34:37.890Z

Link: CVE-2022-4120

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-03T01:27:54.483Z

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2022-12-26T13:15:12.437

Modified: 2025-04-14T14:15:21.803

Link: CVE-2022-4120

Redhat

No data.

OpenCVE Enrichment

No data.

Weaknesses

No weakness.

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