CVE-2022-40686

FAUCET Score

CVE-2022-40686 is a high-severity Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability affecting the Creative Mail plugin up to version 1.5.4 on WordPress. This vulnerability, with a CVSS score of 8.8, allows unauthenticated attackers to execute arbitrary actions on behalf of a logged-in user, potentially leading to full compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion, its high impact potential warrants attention.

Impacted Technologies

Vendor	Product	Version(s)	CPE
		< 1.6.0CPE matchmatch criteria	cpe:2.3:a:constantcontact:creative_mail::::::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

0.26%

Probability of exploitation in next 30 days

EPSS Percentile

18.1%

Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group

As of 2026-07-27

Model: v2026.06.15

This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0026 is in the 20th percentile among its peer group of 14,855 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.2 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.1 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

patchstack.com / database/vulnerability/creative-mail-by-constant-contact/wordpress-creative-mail-plugin-1-5-4-cross-site-request-forgery-csrf-vulnerability

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