CVE-2022-2939 describes a security protection bypass vulnerability in the WP Cerber Security plugin for WordPress, affecting versions up to and including 9.0. This flaw allows unauthenticated attackers to enumerate users due to improper validation of the 'author' parameter in cerber-load.php. The vulnerability is rated Medium severity (CVSS 5.3) with a low impact on confidentiality, as it enables information gathering for further targeted attacks. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
<= 9.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:cerber:wp_cerber_security\,_anti-spam_\&_malware_scan:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
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The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.