CVE-2022-2382 | Product Slider for WooCommerce < 2.5.7 - Subscriber+ Arbitrary Options Deletion

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The Product Slider for WooCommerce WordPress plugin before 2.5.7 has flawed CSRF checks and lack authorisation in some of its AJAX actions, allowing any authenticated users, such as subscriber to call them. One in particular could allow them to delete arbitrary blog options.

Published: 2022-08-22 Last update: 2024-11-21 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]

Conclusion & alert: CVE-2022-2382 is rated Exploit Available (50/100): CVSS Medium severity, with low exploitation likelihood (EPSS 0.30%). Core evidence: 1 public exploit reference(s) are indexed (Exploit-DB). Mandatory action: Public exploits are available—assess exposure, apply mitigations, and prioritize patching.

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Public exploit references (Exploit-DB) for CVE-2022-2382

EDB-ID Source Kind Published Link
nvd_ref exploit_tag Exploit-DB ↗

Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2022-2382

EPSS lead: Daily EPSS estimates relative likelihood of exploitation; percentile ranks this CVE among scored vulnerabilities (higher = more severe relative rank).

# Date Old EPSS score New EPSS score Delta (New - Old)
1 2026-06-15 0.10% 0.30% +0.19%
2 2025-08-26 0.16% 0.10% -0.06%
3 2025-08-23 0.16%

Full EPSS history (10 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2022-2382

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
4.3 3.1 MEDIUM
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N Click to expand
Attack vector (AV:N)
Could be attacked over the internet or any normal routed network—not just someone sitting at the machine.
Attack complexity (AC:L)
Once they can reach the bug, pulling it off is straightforward—no weird race conditions or rare setup.
Privileges required (PR:L)
A normal user session is enough; they don’t have to be admin.
User interaction (UI:N)
Nobody has to click “OK” or open a trap file; it can work without a victim helping.
Scope (S:U)
Damage stays in the same “trust bubble” as the broken component—no big spill into unrelated systems.
Confidentiality (C:N)
Doesn’t really leak secrets in a meaningful way.
Integrity (I:L)
Attackers could change some data, but it’s limited—not everything goes.
Availability (A:N)
Service keeps running; no real outage angle.
2.8 1.4 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2022-2382

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2022-2382

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
shapedplugin product_slider_for_woocommerce < 2.5.7 cpe:2.3:a:shapedplugin:product_slider_for_woocommerce:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*

References for CVE-2022-2382

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