CVE-2022-40131

FAUCET Score

CVE-2022-40131 is a Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability affecting the a3rev Software Page View Count plugin up to version 2.5.5 on WordPress, allowing an attacker to reset plugin settings. Rated 4.3 MEDIUM, this vulnerability requires user interaction (UI:R) but has low impact (I:L) as it only affects integrity. There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code, or significant community discussion, indicating a low current threat level.

Impacted Technologies

Vendor	Product	Version(s)	CPE
		<= 2.5.5CPE matchmatch criteria	cpe:2.3:a:a3rev:page_view_count::::::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

NONE

User Interaction

REQUIRED

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

0.24%

Probability of exploitation in next 30 days

EPSS Percentile

15.6%

Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group

As of 2026-07-25

Model: v2026.06.15

This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0024 is in the 16th percentile among its peer group of 26,219 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 0.1 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/page-views-count/wordpress-page-view-count-plugin-2-5-5-cross-site-request-forgery-csrf-vulnerability

Third Party Advisory

wordpress.org / plugins/page-views-count

Release NotesThird Party Advisory