CVE-2022-40223

FAUCET Score

CVE-2022-40223 describes a nonce token leakage and missing authorization vulnerability in the SearchWP premium plugin for WordPress, affecting versions up to 4.2.5. This medium-severity vulnerability (CVSS 4.3) allows an authenticated attacker to change plugin settings without proper authorization. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, no public exploit code available (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), and minimal community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

Vendor	Product	Version(s)	CPE
		<= 4.2.5CPE matchmatch criteria	cpe:2.3:a:searchwp:searchwp::::::wordpress::*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

5.4MEDIUM

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/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

0.44%

Probability of exploitation in next 30 days

EPSS Percentile

36.2%

Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group

As of 2026-07-26

Model: v2026.06.15

This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0044 is in the 46th percentile among its peer group of 21,957 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/searchwp/wordpress-searchwp-premium-plugin-4-2-5-broken-authentication-vulnerability

Third Party Advisory

searchwp.com / documentation/changelog

Release NotesVendor Advisory