WPGateway <= 3.5 - Unauthenticated Privilege Escalation

published 2025-02-11 last yr. modified 2026-06-17 4mo ago also EUVD-2022-42597

cvss: 9.8; version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev: Not listed; not in CISA's catalog
epss: 9.2%; EPSS 9.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 95%
public exploits: 0; none known

The WPGateway Plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation in versions up to, and including, 3.5. This allows unauthenticated attackers to create arbitrary malicious administrator accounts.

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CISA SSVC

Exploitation: none
Automatable: yes
Technical impact: total
Assessed: last yr. (2025-02-12)

Exploit prediction

9.21% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 95% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by	version	score	vector
CISA ADP	3.1	9.8	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CNA	3.1	9.8	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected products

Jack Hopman WPGateway

Classification

Weakness

CWE-290 Authentication Bypass by Spoofing

Technology feeds

WordPress rss critical rss

References

wordfence.com /blog/2022/09/psa-zero-day-vulnerability-in-wpgateway-actively-exploited-in-the-wild/
third-party-advisory
wordfence.com /threat-intel/vulnerabilities/wordpress-plugins/wpgateway/wpgateway-35-unauthenticated-privilege-escalation
third-party-advisory

Sources

CVE List CVE-2022-3180
NVD CVE-2022-3180

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