CVE-2022-1001

MEDIUM 4.8CVE-2022-1001 · Published 18/04/2022 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2022-1001 is a MEDIUM (CVSS 4.8) vulnerability affecting wp downgrade (wp downgrade project).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 4.9%, higher than 92.1% of all vulnerabilities.
Fix: update to 1.2.3 or later.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
wp downgrade wp_downgrade_project	`< 1.2.3`	`1.2.3`

Description

The WP Downgrade WordPress plugin before 1.2.3 only perform client side validation of its "WordPress Target Version" settings, but does not sanitise and escape it server side, allowing high privilege users such as admin to perform Cross-Site attacks even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed

References

plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/2696091 · Patch
wpscan.com/vulnerability/34a7b3cd-e2b5-4891-ab33-af6a2a0eeceb · Exploit

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