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Pop-up <= 1.1.5 — Privilege Escalation

CVE-2022-38070Published · Updated

Action summary

Affected: ≤1.1.5Update to 1.1.6 or newer

All remediation steps
Watch plugin
Severity
Medium5.4
CVSS
5.4
CVSS 3.1 · CNA (Wordfence)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L
What does this vector mean?
AV:N Attack vector
Network
AC:L Attack complexity
Low
PR:L Privileges required
Low
UI:N User interaction
None
S:U Scope
Unchanged
C:N Confidentiality
None
I:L Integrity
Low
A:L Availability
Low
Weakness
CWE-269 Privilege Escalation
Required access
Unknown
Exploit prediction (EPSS)
No score
CISA KEV
Not listed
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Am I affected?

Pop-up pop-up-pop-up

  1. Affected≤ 1.1.5
  2. Patched in1.1.6

Update to 1.1.6 or newer.

You are affected if you run ≤ 1.1.5. Version 1.1.6 and later are not affected by this issue.

  • Check your version: in wp-admin go to Plugins → Installed Plugins and read the version under Pop-up.
  • No admin access? Run a passive check of your site. It reads public files only.

What to do

  1. Update to version 1.1.6, or a newer patched version
  2. Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
  3. Watch Pop-up to get an email when the next vulnerability is published.

Advisory

Source description from Wordfence Intelligence, credited to Tien Nguyen Ahn.

The Pop-up plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Privilege Escalation in versions up to, and including, 1.1.5. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers (with subscriber-level privileges or higher) to execute otherwise privilege restricted actions and bypass capability checks.

Exploits & references

Proof-of-concept & detection

No public proof-of-concept or detection template is known for this vulnerability.

Advisories & patches

More in Pop-up

All 5
More vulnerabilities in Pop-up
SeverityVulnerabilityCVEPublished
Medium4.3Missing Authorization
≤1.4.1Update to 1.4.2
CVE-2024-31435
Medium4.3Cross-Site Request Forgery on handle_installation function
≤1.2.7Update to 1.2.8
CVE-2023-3977
Medium4.3Missing Authorization on handle_installation function
≤1.2.7Update to 1.2.8
CVE-2023-0958
High7.1Missing authorization to Settings Change
≤1.1.1Update to 1.1.2
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Timeline

  1. CVE published

    Severity medium, CVSS 5.4

  2. 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
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.

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