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CVE-2022-42888

28
FAUCET Score

CVE-2022-42888 is an Unauthenticated Privilege Escalation vulnerability affecting ARMember premium plugin versions up to and including 5.5.1 on WordPress. This high-severity vulnerability (CVSS 8.8) allows an attacker to gain elevated privileges with low attack complexity, potentially leading to full compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While no public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB) is currently available and it's not listed on the KEV catalog, its FAUCET Risk Score of 68/100 indicates a significant potential threat. There is currently no community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 5.5.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:armemberplugin:armember:*:*:*:*:premium:wordpress:*:*
<= 5.5.1CPE match
cpe:2.3:a:reputeinfosystems:armember:*:*:*:*:lite:wordpress:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

9.8CRITICAL

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
5.9
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.69%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
49.0%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-26
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0069 is in the 41st percentile among its peer group of 17,823 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.3 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 0.1 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/armember/wordpress-armember-premium-plugin-5-5-1-unauth-privilege-escalation-vulnerability
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