CVE-2022-4049

CRITICALNVD 9.89.8
EchelonGraph scoreMEDIUM confidence

“—” beside the score: it is equal to NVD's CVSS score.

Score 9.8 from GitHub Security Advisory (severity: CRITICAL) published 2023-01-03. NVD baseline CVSS 9.8; sources differ by 0.0.

Triggered by: GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
Sources: EPSS, GitHub Security Advisory, NVD CVSS v3
Trending — 3 sources updated this weekElevated

Also known asEUVD-2022-51426 (ENISA EUVD) · GHSA-vq28-qp88-5gwg (GitHub Security Advisories)Source: ENISA EUVD

9.8EG
EchelonGraph verdictPlan mitigationNo fix is confirmed yet: check with the vendor for a fixed release; until one is applied, restrict network exposure of the affected system on your normal schedule at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high (the SSVC decision on this page).
  • CISA's Vulnrichment rates exploitation as PoC; EchelonGraph holds no exploit-code reference for it
CISA-KEV: Not listedEPSS PROB: 5.1%CVSS: 9.8Exploit: No code on recordExposed services: Not assessed

No fix is confirmed yet — apply a workaround or compensating control (WAF / firewall / segmentation) and watch for the fix.

The CVE record's CNA (WPScan) lists WP User versions up to and including 7.0 as affected. No release containing a fix is confirmed on record.

The WP User WordPress plugin through 7.0 does not properly sanitize and escape a parameter before using it in a SQL statement, leading to a SQL injection exploitable by unauthenticated users.

CVSS v3
9.8
EG Score
9.8CRITICALmedium confidence
EG Risk
75
EG Risk 75/100

EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score. It fuses impact severity (EG Severity, the CVSS base score, never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score) with real-world exploitation and automatability, under weights EchelonGraph set by hand, so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner.

How it’s computed (value × EchelonGraph’s weight)
Severity98% × 45%
Impact severity (EG Severity): CVSS 9.8 of 10. Never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score.
Exploitation40% × 40%
EchelonGraph's fixed weight for EG-KEV Tier 3 (Elevated): a constant, not a probability.
Automatability100% × 15%
CISA's SSVC Automatable value: yes (Vulnrichment).
SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph): Track at low, Track* at medium and Attend at high mission impact.
Exploitation public PoC (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable yes (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE.
Action: No fix is confirmed yet. Check with the vendor for a fixed release; until one is applied, restrict network exposure of the affected system on your normal schedule at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high.
EPSS PROB
5.1%
EPSS %ILE
92nd
KEV
Not listed

What the EG score is made of (scorer v4.0: the three questions the 0–10 score mixes, published apart · methodology)

The EG score (9.8): severity, escalated by confirmed exploitation. This CVE's 9.8 is its impact severity (EG Severity), not escalated.

EG Severity
9.8 CRITICALCVSS-B, impact only: no KEV listing, EPSS or EG-KEV tier raises it.GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
EG Likelihood
5.1% within 30 daysSource: FIRST EPSS. FIRST's exploitation probability, not an EchelonGraph model.
Confirmed exploitation
None on record (CISA KEV, EG-KEV Tier 1)Reported apart from the likelihood: an observed fact, not a probability.
EG Priority
SSVC Track* at medium mission impactTrack at low, Track* at medium and Attend at high mission impact.CISA BOD 26-04: 3 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; 60 days if it is not.No released fix is confirmed on this page, but CISA's timeline does not wait for a fix's release: it starts when an agency identifies the flaw on an asset and updates the CDM Agency and Federal Dashboard, and the directive counts patching, decommissioning the system or another action as remediation. Until a fixed release is applied, mitigate as this page's verdict says.Each input and its source, and whom BOD 26-04 binds: the SSVC and BOD 26-04 blocks below.

SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph)Track at low, Track* at medium and Attend at high mission impact.

No fix is confirmed yet. Check with the vendor for a fixed release; until one is applied, restrict network exposure of the affected system on your normal schedule at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high.

Exploitation public PoC (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable yes (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE. Mission impact is CISA's Mission & Well-being decision point, and only you can judge it. CISA's table makes it high when Mission Prevalence is Essential — the vulnerable component "directly provides capabilities that constitute at least one MEF for at least one entity" (MEF: mission essential function) — or when Public Well-Being Impact is Irreversible: "multiple fatalities are likely", the cyber-physical system "is likely lost or destroyed", "extreme or serious externalities" are imposed on other parties, or social systems such as elections or the financial grid "are destabilized and potentially collapse". CISA's decision table

BOD 26-04 (CISA's remediation timeline, Table 1)3 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; 60 days if it is not.

No released fix is confirmed on this page, but CISA's timeline does not wait for a fix's release: it starts when an agency identifies the flaw on an asset and updates the CDM Agency and Federal Dashboard, and the directive counts patching, decommissioning the system or another action as remediation. Until a fixed release is applied, mitigate as this page's verdict says.

The score's inputs: In CISA KEV no (CISA's KEV catalog) · Automatable yes (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). Whether your system is publicly exposed is yours to answer. BOD 26-04 binds US Federal Civilian Executive Branch agencies; for anyone else it is CISA's published timeline, a reference rather than an obligation. The directive · how EchelonGraph applies it

Published

January 2, 2023

Last Modified

April 10, 2025

Advisory Details (1)

Auto-updated Oct 10, 2026
No fix on record yet.
Web page

WP User <= 7.0 – Unauthenticated SQLi | CVE 2022-4049 | Plugin Vulnerabilities

https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/9b0781e2-ad62-4308-bafc-d45b9a2472be

Weakness Classification(1)

MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.

Data Freshness Timeline

(refreshed 20× in last 7d / 73× in last 30d)

Each row is a time one of our pipelines fetched, updated or re-scored this CVE. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed it from the CNA feed. An arrow marks a change the record states ("CVSS v3 → 9.1"); EPSS and GHSA rows show the values recorded at that time, not what changed (EPSS values are rounded; hover one for the exact figures). Most recent first.

Showing the most recent 100 of 222 refreshes on record for this CVE.

A repeat, a row identical to one the same pipeline wrote less than 10 seconds earlier, is not a separate refresh and is not counted. None are among the latest 100 rows. The 122 oldest rows on record are not shown and were not checked, so the counts can still include repeats.

  1. 2026-11-02 16:39 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 5.1% · 92nd percentile
  2. 2026-11-02 04:18 UTCEG score recompute
  3. 2026-11-02 04:18 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-vq28-qp88-5gwg · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
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  5. 2026-11-01 05:40 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-vq28-qp88-5gwg · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
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  8. 2026-10-31 07:06 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-vq28-qp88-5gwg · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
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  11. 2026-10-30 08:29 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-vq28-qp88-5gwg · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
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  14. 2026-10-29 09:55 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-vq28-qp88-5gwg · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  15. 2026-10-28 16:28 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 4.8% · 91st percentile
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  17. 2026-10-28 11:21 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-vq28-qp88-5gwg · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
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  20. 2026-10-27 12:20 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-vq28-qp88-5gwg · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
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  23. 2026-10-26 13:46 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-vq28-qp88-5gwg · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
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  1. 2026-10-25 14:51 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-vq28-qp88-5gwg · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  2. 2026-10-24 16:29 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 4.8% · 91st percentile
  3. 2026-10-24 16:16 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-vq28-qp88-5gwg · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
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  8. 2026-10-22 19:05 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-vq28-qp88-5gwg · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  9. 2026-10-22 16:30 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 4.8% · 91st percentile
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  11. 2026-10-21 20:28 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-vq28-qp88-5gwg · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  12. 2026-10-21 16:29 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 4.8% · 91st percentile
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  14. 2026-10-20 21:55 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-vq28-qp88-5gwg · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
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  17. 2026-10-19 23:20 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-vq28-qp88-5gwg · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  18. 2026-10-19 16:28 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 4.8% · 91st percentile
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  20. 2026-10-18 22:44 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-vq28-qp88-5gwg · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
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  24. 2026-10-17 23:56 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-vq28-qp88-5gwg · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  25. 2026-10-17 16:29 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 4.8% · 91st percentile
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  27. 2026-10-17 01:19 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-vq28-qp88-5gwg · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
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  30. 2026-10-16 01:31 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-vq28-qp88-5gwg · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
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  33. 2026-10-14 21:04 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-vq28-qp88-5gwg · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
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  36. 2026-10-13 16:54 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-vq28-qp88-5gwg · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
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  39. 2026-10-12 18:08 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-vq28-qp88-5gwg · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
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Public detection templates

(1 reference)

A public Nuclei detection template is referenced for this CVE. A detection template checks whether a system is affected; it is not necessarily exploit code.

  • Nucleihttp/cves/2022/CVE-2022-4049.yaml
    Published Oct 17, 2023

    WP User <= 7.0 - Unauthenticated SQLi

    Open source ↗

Frequently asked(5)

What is CVE-2022-4049?
CVE-2022-4049 is a critical-severity vulnerability; its CVE record was published on January 2, 2023. The WP User WordPress plugin through 7.0 does not properly sanitize and escape a parameter before using it in a SQL statement, leading to a SQL injection exploitable by unauthenticated users.
When was the CVE record for CVE-2022-4049 published?
The CVE record for CVE-2022-4049 was published on January 2, 2023. That is the record's publication date; the vulnerability itself may have been made public earlier. EchelonGraph's copy of the record carries a last-modified date of April 10, 2025; the record at its source may have been updated since.
Is CVE-2022-4049 actively exploited?
CVE-2022-4049 is not currently on CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. FIRST EPSS estimates a 5.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days (92nd percentile of EPSS-scored CVEs).
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2022-4049?
CVE-2022-4049 has a CVSS v3 base score of 9.8 (NVD).
How do I remediate CVE-2022-4049?
No fix for CVE-2022-4049 is confirmed yet. Until one is published, restrict network exposure of the affected system — for example, keep it off the internet or limit it to trusted networks — and watch for a fix. The CVE record's CNA (WPScan) lists WP User versions up to and including 7.0 as affected. No release containing a fix is confirmed on record.

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