CVE-2022-36404

FAUCET Score

CVE-2022-36404 is a Missing Authorization and Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability affecting David Cole's Simple SEO WordPress plugin versions 1.8.12 and below. With a CVSS score of 5.4 (Medium), this vulnerability allows a low-privileged attacker to potentially impact data integrity and availability through a network-based attack with low complexity. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

Vendor	Product	Version(s)	CPE
		<= 1.8.12CPE matchmatch criteria	cpe:2.3:a:coleds:simple_seo::::::wordpress::*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

5.4MEDIUM

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

LOW

User Interaction

NONE

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

LOW

Availability Impact

LOW

Exploitability Score

2.8

Impact Score

2.5

CvssVersion

3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score

0.21%

Probability of exploitation in next 30 days

EPSS Percentile

11.5%

Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group

As of 2026-07-26

Model: v2026.06.15

This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0021 is in the 10th percentile among its peer group of 21,954 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

patchstack.com / database/vulnerability/cds-simple-seo/wordpress-simple-seo-plugin-1-8-12-authenticated-sitemap-deletion-creation-vulnerability

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