vulnerability

WordPress Plugin: wpdiscuz: CVE-2022-43492: Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:N)
Published
Oct 28, 2022
Added
May 15, 2025
Modified
May 4, 2026

Description

The Comments – wpDiscuz plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to insecure direct object reference in versions up to, and including, 7.4.2. This is due to insufficient validation on the 'wmu_attachments' user-controlled key. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers with subscriber-level capabilities and above to inject attachments that do not belong to them into post comments.

Solution

wpdiscuz-plugin-cve-2022-43492
Title
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