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• Nuclei
• Web

Exploit for WordPress WPQA <5.5 - Improper Access Control (CVE-2022-1598)

Description:

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.

Nuclei Template

View the template here CVE-2022-1598.yaml

Validate with Nuclei

echo "$URL" | nuclei -t ~/nuclei-templates/http/cves/2022/CVE-2022-1598.yaml

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