🛡️ CVE-2022-1390 — admin-word-count-column

🔴 CVSS 9.8 — Critical ⚠️ Exploit Public CWE-22 NVD
9.8
CVSS Score
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Description

The Admin Word Count Column WordPress plugin through 2.2 does not validate the path parameter given to readfile(), which could allow unauthenticated attackers to read arbitrary files on server running old version of PHP susceptible to the null byte technique. This could also lead to RCE by using a Phar Deserialization technique

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs no privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality high, integrity high, availability high.

Weakness class

CVE-2022-1390 is classified as CWE-22: Path Traversal. A file path built from user input is not confined to the intended directory, letting an attacker reach files elsewhere on the filesystem.

Affected software

CVE-2022-1390 is recorded against 1 package.

  • admin-word-count-column (fixed in 2.2)

Timeline and source

Published on 25 April 2022 and last revised on 17 June 2026. A public exploit is known to exist, which raises the urgency of patching considerably. Record sourced from NVD.

References

packetstormsecurity.com
wpscan.com
packetstormsecurity.com
wpscan.com

Details

Severity CRITICAL
CVSS Score 9.8
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE CWE-22
Public Exploit ⚠️ Yes
Source NVD
Published 2022-04-25
Updated 2026-08-11
Modified 2026-06-17
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
admin-word-count-column — 2.2

References

Exploit Protection

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