CVE-2022-25602 (GCVE-0-2022-25602)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2022-03-18 18:00 – Updated: 2026-04-28 16:07
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Title
WordPress Responsive Menu plugin <= 4.1.7 - Nonce token leak leading to arbitrary file upload, theme deletion, plugin settings change vulnerability
Summary
Nonce token leak vulnerability leading to arbitrary file upload, theme deletion, plugin settings change discovered in Responsive Menu WordPress plugin (versions <= 4.1.7).
Severity
8.3 (High)
SSVC
Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-02-20 19:18 UTC
CWE
- CWE-200 - Information Exposure
Assigner
References
2 references
| URL | Tags |
|---|---|
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Impacted products
1 product
| Vendor | Product | Version | CPE status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ExpressTech | Responsive Menu (WordPress plugin) |
Affected:
<= 4.1.7 , ≤ 4.1.7
(custom)
|
guessed |
Date Public
2022-03-16 00:00
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- 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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