{"id":"CVE-2022-1390","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2022-1390","generatedAt":"2026-11-05T00:19:39.025Z","title":"The Admin Word Count Column WordPress plugin through 2.2 does not validate the path parameter given to readfile(), which could allow unauthenticated attackers to read arbitrary files on server running old version of PHP susceptible to the null byte…","description":"The Admin Word Count Column WordPress plugin through 2.2 does not validate the path parameter given to readfile(), which could allow unauthenticated attackers to read arbitrary files on server running old version of PHP susceptible to the null byte technique. This could also lead to RCE by using a Phar Deserialization technique","published":"2022-04-25T16:16:09.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T04:22:21.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"contact@wpscan.com","cvss":{"version":"3.1","score":9.8,"severity":"CRITICAL","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"},"cwe":["CWE-22"],"affected":["admin word count column project/admin word count column"],"epss":{"score":0.21881,"percentile":0.97652,"date":"2026-11-03","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"urgent","text":"EPSS puts the probability of exploitation in the next 30 days at 21.9%, higher than 98% of all known CVEs. Patch or mitigate before the next change window."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://packetstormsecurity.com/files/166476/","tags":["Exploit","Third Party Advisory","VDB Entry"],"source":"contact@wpscan.com"},{"url":"https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/6293b319-dc4f-4412-9d56-55744246c990","tags":["Exploit","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"contact@wpscan.com"},{"url":"https://packetstormsecurity.com/files/166476/","tags":["Exploit","Third Party Advisory","VDB Entry"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/6293b319-dc4f-4412-9d56-55744246c990","tags":["Exploit","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-1390","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}