CVE-2021-44779 (GCVE-0-2021-44779)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2022-02-04 22:29 – Updated: 2026-04-28 16:07
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Title
WordPress [GWA] AutoResponder plugin <= 2.3 - Unauthenticated SQL Injection (SQLi) vulnerability
Summary
Unauthenticated SQL Injection (SQLi) vulnerability discovered in [GWA] AutoResponder WordPress plugin (versions <= 2.3), vulnerable at (&listid). No patched version available, plugin closed.
Severity
7.3 (High)
SSVC
Exploitation: none
Automatable: yes
Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-02-20 19:16 UTC
CWE
- CWE-89 - SQL Injection
Assigner
References
2 references
| URL | Tags |
|---|---|
| https://wordpress.org/plugins/gwa-autoresponder/ | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
| https://patchstack.com/database/vulnerability/gwa… | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
Impacted products
1 product
| Vendor | Product | Version | CPE status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| G.J.P. | [GWA] AutoResponder (WordPress plugin) |
Affected:
<= 2.3 , ≤ 2.3
(custom)
|
guessed |
Date Public
2022-01-27 00:00
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- Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
- Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
- Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
- Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
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The MITRE ATT&CK techniques below are AI-generated suggestions, inferred from the description of the
vulnerability by the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-classification-roberta-base
model, served locally by ML-Gateway.
They have not been verified by an analyst and are provided for guidance only.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
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Related by attack behaviour
Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.
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