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CVE-2022-1390: Admin Word Count Column <= 2.2 - Unauthenticated Arbitrary File Read

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 21.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2022-04-25 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-22

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

Affected products

• Admin Word Count Column: through 2.2

References

• https://packetstormsecurity.com/files/166476/
• https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/6293b319-dc4f-4412-9d56-55744246c990
• https://packetstormsecurity.com/files/166476/
• https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/6293b319-dc4f-4412-9d56-55744246c990

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