CVEvulnerability
CVE-2022-4974
6.3 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Deferred
- Published
- 2024-10-16
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 6.3 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
- Weaknesses
- CWE-862
Description
The Freemius SDK, as used by hundreds of WordPress plugin and theme developers, was vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery and Information disclosure due to missing capability checks and nonce protection on the _get_debug_log, _get_db_option, and the _set_db_option functions in versions up to, and including 2.4.2. Any WordPress plugin or theme running a version of Freemius less than 2.4.3 is vulnerable.
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-862 Missing Authorization weakness
References
- https://freemius.com/blog/managing-security-issues-open-source-freemius-sdk-security-disclosure/ freemius.com
- https://web.archive.org/web/20220225174410/https%3A//www.pluginvulnerabilities.com/2022/02/25/our-security-review-of-wordpress-plugin-found-freemius-library-still-contained-vulnerabilities-3-years-after-major-security-incident/ web.archive.org
- https://wpdirectory.net/search/01FWPVWA7BC5DYGZHNSZQ9QMN5 wpdirectory.net
- https://wpdirectory.net/search/01G02RSGMFS1TPT63FS16RWEYR wpdirectory.net
- https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/6dae6dca-7474-4008-9fe5-4c62b9f12d0a wpscan.com
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/39fb0499-9ab4-4a2f-b0db-ece86bcf4d42?source=cve www.wordfence.com