CSRF in Admin Management Xtended Project

CVE-2022-1599

The Admin Management Xtended WordPress plugin before 2.4.5 does not have CSRF checks in some of its AJAX actions, allowing attackers to make a logged users with the right capabilities to call them. This can lead to changes in post status (draft, published), slug, post date, comment status (enabled, disabled) and more.

Vulnerability class: CSRF (Cross-Site Request Forgery)

Published · last modified .

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 6.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.007 (51.8th percentile), scored .

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 52nd percentile — 51.8% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS trend (30 days)EPSS over the last 30 days for CVE-2022-1599: held from 0.007 to 0.007.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.007 · newest: 0.007 · change: +0.000

Affected products

Weakness classification (CWE)

Public proof-of-concept exploits

References

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2022-1599?
CVE-2022-1599 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Admin Management Xtended Project, classified under Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF). CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2022-07-11.
How severe is CVE-2022-1599?
Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.
Is CVE-2022-1599 known to be exploited?
2 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.