Vulnerability in Trumani Stop Spammers

CVE-2022-4120

The Stop Spammers Security | Block Spam Users, Comments, Forms WordPress plugin before 2022.6 passes base64 encoded user input to the unserialize() PHP function when CAPTCHA are used as second challenge, which could lead to PHP Object injection if a plugin installed on the blog has a suitable gadget chain

EPSS: 0.181 (96.9th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 9.8 (Critical). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H.

Affected products

Public proof-of-concept exploits

References

  • contact@wpscan.com (Exploit, technical-description, Third Party Advisory, exploit, vdb-entry)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2022-4120?
CVE-2022-4120 is a critical-severity vulnerability in Trumani Stop Spammers, classified under CWE-502 DESERIALIZATION OF UNTRUSTED DATA. CVSS score: 9.8/10. Published 2022-12-26.
How severe is CVE-2022-4120?
Critical severity. CVSS v3 base score is 9.8 out of 10.
Is CVE-2022-4120 known to be exploited?
2 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.