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WordPress Plugin: pop-up-pop-up: CVE-2022-38070: Improper Privilege Management

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:P)
Published
Sep 2, 2022
Added
May 15, 2025
Modified
Apr 30, 2026

Description

The Pop-up plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Privilege Escalation in versions up to, and including, 1.1.5. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers (with subscriber-level privileges or higher) to execute otherwise privilege restricted actions and bypass capability checks.

Solution

pop-up-pop-up-plugin-cve-2022-38070
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