CVE-2026-22202

medium

Description

wpDiscuz before 7.6.47 contains a cross-site request forgery vulnerability that allows attackers to delete all comments associated with an email address by crafting a malicious GET request with a valid HMAC key. Attackers can embed the deletecomments action URL in image tags or other resources to trigger permanent deletion of comments without user confirmation or POST-based CSRF protection.

References

https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/wpdiscuz-before-destructive-get-action-deletes-all-comments-by-email

https://wordpress.org/plugins/wpdiscuz/#developers

https://wordpress.org/plugins/wpdiscuz/

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2026-03-13

Updated: 2026-03-17

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 7.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:C/A:N

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 6.5

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Severity: Medium

CVSS v4

Base Score: 6.1

Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:P/VC:N/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00015