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Attorney <= 3 — Missing Authorization to Unauthenticated Arbitrary Content Deletion
CVE-2022-45832Published · Updated Action summary
Affected: ≤3No patch available
What to do until a fix shipsMedium6.5CVSS 3.16.5CISA KEVNot listedAccessNo account needed
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Overview
- Advisory ID
- CVE-2022-45832
- Product
- Attorney attorney
- Affected
- ≤3
- Fixed in
- no fix yet
- Weakness
- CWE-862 Missing Authorization
- Required access
- No account needed
- Published
- · updated
- Credit
- Dave Jong
- Source
- Wordfence Intelligence
- Affected≤ 3
- PatchedNo fix yet
No patched version available.
6.5
CVSS 3.1 · CNA (Wordfence)CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:LWhat does this vector mean?
AV:NAttack vector- Network
AC:LAttack complexity- Low
PR:NPrivileges required- None
UI:NUser interaction- None
S:UScope- Unchanged
C:NConfidentiality- None
I:LIntegrity- Low
A:LAvailability- Low
The Attorney theme for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized loss of data due to a missing capability check on the hd_delete_index_page function hooked via admin_init in versions up to, and including, 3. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to delete arbitrary posts and content via the 'drop' parameter.
Not sure which version you run? Run a passive check — it reads public files only.
Remediation & mitigations
- No known patch available. Please review the vulnerability's details in depth and employ mitigations based on your organization's risk tolerance. It may be best to uninstall the affected software and find a replacement.
- 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
All 2 in AttorneyTimeline
CVE published
Severity medium, CVSS 6.5
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.