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CVE-2022-1390

9.8 criticalEPSS 22%

Critical (9.8) in admin word count column project admin word count column. EPSS 22% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The Admin Word Count Column WordPress plugin through 2.2 does not validate the path parameter given to readfile(), which could allow unauthenticated attackers to read arbitrary files on server running old version of PHP susceptible to the null byte technique. This could also lead to RCE by using a Phar Deserialization technique

Severity

CVSS 3.1

9.8 critical
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS
22% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 97% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE
CWE-22
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Modified
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