CRITICAL SEVERITY

CVE-2022-0827

Bestbooks vulnerability

CVSS
9.8
EPSS
9.0%
EPSS pct
95th
Exploited
No known
The Bestbooks WordPress plugin through 2.6.3 does not sanitise and escape some parameters before using them in a SQL statement via an AJAX action, leading to an SQL Injection exploitable by unauthenticated users
Affected vendor
Presspage
Affected product
Bestbooks
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weakness type (CWE)
Published
2022-06-13

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, low attack complexity, requiring no privileges, no user interaction. Successful exploitation leads to high impact to confidentiality, high impact to integrity, high impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 9.0% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 95% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2022-0827

  • Confirm whether Presspage Bestbooks is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2022-0827.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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