WordPress theme
Ask Me <= 6.8.1 — Cross-Site Request Forgery
CVE-2022-1424Published · Updated Action summary
Affected: <6.8.2Update to 6.8.2 or newer
All remediation stepsHigh8.8CVSS 3.18.8CISA KEVNot listedAccessNo account needed
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Overview
- Advisory ID
- CVE-2022-1424
- Product
- Ask Me - Responsive Questions & Answers WordPress ask-me
- Affected
- <6.8.2
- Fixed in
- 6.8.2
- Weakness
- CWE-352 CSRF
- Required access
- No account needed
- Published
- · updated
- Credit
- WPScanTeam
- Source
- Wordfence Intelligence
- Affected< 6.8.2
- Patched in6.8.2
Update to 6.8.2 or newer.
8.8
CVSS 3.1 · CNA (Wordfence)CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HWhat does this vector mean?
AV:NAttack vector- Network
AC:LAttack complexity- Low
PR:NPrivileges required- None
UI:RUser interaction- Required
S:UScope- Unchanged
C:HConfidentiality- High
I:HIntegrity- High
A:HAvailability- High
The Ask me WordPress theme before 6.8.2 does not perform CSRF checks for any of its AJAX actions, allowing an attacker to trick logged in users to perform various actions on their behalf on the site.
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Remediation & mitigations
- Update to version 6.8.2, or a newer patched version
- Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
References & provenance
Proof-of-concept & detection
No public proof-of-concept or detection template is known for this vulnerability.
Advisories & patches
- Advisorywordfence.com
Related CVEs
- 8.8CVE-2022-3750Cross-Site Request Forgery
- 8.8CVE-2022-1251Cross-Site Request Forgery
- 6.1CVE-2022-1241Reflected Cross-Site Scripting
- 7.2CVE-2026-120687Unauthenticated Stored DOM-Based Cross-Site Scripting via Image Alt Attribute in .wp-caption Containers
- 6.4CVE-2026-110531Authenticated (Subscriber+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'Popup' Shortcode Attribute via Profile Video
- 5.4CVE-2026-127115Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'title' Attribute of [bf_login_form] Shortcode
Timeline
CVE published
Severity high, CVSS 8.8
Record last updated
Sources & licenses
Sources & licenses
Wordfence record- Vulnerability data
- Wordfence Intelligence. Copyright 2012-2026 Defiant Inc. Licensed under the CC BY-SA 4.0.
- CVE® identifiers
- Copyright 1999-2026 The MITRE Corporation. Used under the CVE Program. CVE® is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation.
- CVSS / CWE
- National Vulnerability Database (NVD), shown unmodified. This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.
- VulnCrest content
- Summary, remediation guidance and page layout © VulnCrest. Not sourced from NVD.