WPQA — Builder forms Addon For WordPress < 5.7 - Information Disclosure
CVE-2022-2198Published · Updated Action summary
Affected: <5.7Update to 5.7 or newer
All remediation steps- Severity
- Medium6.5
- CVSS
- 6.5CVSS 3.1 · CNA (Wordfence)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:NWhat does this vector mean?
AV:NAttack vector- Network
AC:LAttack complexity- Low
PR:LPrivileges required- Low
UI:NUser interaction- None
S:UScope- Unchanged
C:HConfidentiality- High
I:NIntegrity- None
A:NAvailability- None
- Required access
- Unknown
- Exploit prediction (EPSS)
- No score
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
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Am I affected?
WPQA - Builder forms Addon For WordPress wpqa
- Affected< 5.7
- Patched in5.7
Update to 5.7 or newer.
You are affected if you run < 5.7. Version 5.7 and later are not affected by this issue.
- Check your version: in wp-admin go to Plugins → Installed Plugins and read the version under WPQA - Builder forms Addon For WordPress.
- No admin access? Run a passive check of your site. It reads public files only.
What to do
- Update to version 5.7, or a newer patched version
- Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
- Watch WPQA - Builder forms Addon For WordPress to get an email when the next vulnerability is published.
Advisory
Source description from Wordfence Intelligence, credited to Bikram Kharal (themarkib).
The WPQA Builder WordPress plugin before 5.7 which is a companion plugin to the Hilmer and Discy , does not check authorization before displaying private messages, allowing any logged in user to read other users private message using the message id, which can easily be brute forced.
Exploits & references
Proof-of-concept & detection
No public proof-of-concept or detection template is known for this vulnerability.
Advisories & patches
- Advisorywordfence.com
Related CVEs
More in WPQA - Builder forms Addon For WordPress
All 10| Severity | Vulnerability | CVE | Published |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medium6.4 | Builder forms Addon For WordPress plugin <= 6.1.0 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting ≤6.1.0Update to 6.1.1 | CVE-2024-2375 | |
| Medium4.3 | Cross-Site Request Forgery ≤6.1.0Update to 6.1.1 | CVE-2024-2376 | |
| Medium4.3 | Builder forms Addon For WordPress (<= 5.9.2), Himer (<= 1.9.3) and Discy (<= 5.5.3) - Authenticated (Subscriber+) Insecure Direct Object Reference ≤5.9.2Update to 5.9.3 | CVE-2022-3343 | |
| High8.8 | Cross-Site Request Forgery <5.9Update to 5.9 | CVE-2022-3688 | |
| Medium5.3 | Builder forms Addon For WordPress <= 5.4 - Unauthenticated Private Message Disclosure ≤5.4Update to 5.5 | CVE-2022-1598 |
- Medium6.4Builder forms Addon For WordPress plugin <= 6.1.0 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting
≤6.1.0Update to 6.1.1
- Medium4.3Cross-Site Request Forgery
≤6.1.0Update to 6.1.1
- Medium4.3Builder forms Addon For WordPress (<= 5.9.2), Himer (<= 1.9.3) and Discy (<= 5.5.3) - Authenticated (Subscriber+) Insecure Direct Object Reference
≤5.9.2Update to 5.9.3
- High8.8Cross-Site Request Forgery
<5.9Update to 5.9
- Medium5.3Builder forms Addon For WordPress <= 5.4 - Unauthenticated Private Message Disclosure
≤5.4Update to 5.5
Timeline
CVE published
Severity medium, CVSS 6.5
Record last updated
Sources & licenses
Wordfence record- Vulnerability data
- Wordfence Intelligence. Copyright 2012-2026 Defiant Inc. Licensed under the CC BY-SA 4.0.
- CVE® identifiers
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- CVSS / CWE
- National Vulnerability Database (NVD), shown unmodified. This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.
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- Summary, remediation guidance and page layout © VulnCrest. Not sourced from NVD.