CVE-2022-4120
The Stop Spammers Security | Block Spam Users, Comments, Forms WordPress plugin before 2022.6 passes base64 encoded user input to the unserialize() PHP function when CAPTCHA are used as second challenge, which could lead to PHP Object injection if a…
Does this matter?
EPSS puts the probability of exploitation in the next 30 days at 18.1%, higher than 97% of all known CVEs. Patch or mitigate before the next change window.
Description
The Stop Spammers Security | Block Spam Users, Comments, Forms WordPress plugin before 2022.6 passes base64 encoded user input to the unserialize() PHP function when CAPTCHA are used as second challenge, which could lead to PHP Object injection if a plugin installed on the blog has a suitable gadget chain
- CVSS 3.1
- 9.8 CRITICALCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- EPSS
- 18.12% probability · 97th percentile
- Public exploits
- None in Exploit-DB
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Affected
- trumani/stop spammers
- Source
- contact@wpscan.com
EPSS 18.1% since 3 November 2026; no change recorded yet. The dashed line is the ten per cent mark our analysts treat as “patch before the next change window”. Points are recorded when the score first appears and whenever it moves by a percentage point or more.
References
- https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/e8bb79db-ef77-43be-b449-4c4b5310eedfExploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/e8bb79db-ef77-43be-b449-4c4b5310eedfExploit, Third Party Advisory
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.