CVE-2022-4950Cool Plugins (Various Versions) - Arbitrary Plugin Installation and Activation
- 8.8HighCVSS base score
- 1.4%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 28% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
Several WordPress plugins developed by Cool Plugins are vulnerable to arbitrary plugin installation and activation that can lead to remote code execution by authenticated attackers with minimal permissions, such as a subscriber.
Timeline
ID reserved
By Wordfence
- 1 day later
· 1 day later
Published
- 3 years later
· 3 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| WordfenceCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | High8.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | High8.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.4% · top 28% of all CVEs (12 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: total
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 8.8.
Affected products
narinder-singh · The Events Calendar Events Notification Bar Addon
- affected ≤ 1.1
narinder-singh · Events Search For The Events Calendar
- affected ≤ 1.1.3
coolplugins · Cryptocurrency Widgets For Elementor
- affected < 1.3
narinder-singh · Event Countdown for The Events Calendar
- affected ≤ 1.3.1
coolplugins · Events Widgets For Elementor And The Events Calendar
- affected ≤ 1.4.2
narinder-singh · Event Single Page Builder For The Events Calendar
- affected ≤ 1.5
blackworks1 · Cryptocurrency Donation Box – Bitcoin & Crypto Donations
- affected ≤ 1.7
narinder-singh · Events Shortcodes For The Events Calendar
- affected ≤ 1.9.4
narinder-singh · Cool Timeline (Horizontal & Vertical Timeline)
- affected ≤ 2.3.3
narinder-singh · Cryptocurrency Widgets – Price Ticker & Coins List
- affected ≤ 2.4
References
References3
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/f6f0fb78-ad6b-4a9e-ae1a-5793f3426379?source=cve (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/2705076/cool-timeline/trunk/admin/timeline-addon-page/timeline-addon-page.php (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://blog.nintechnet.com/8-wordpress-plugins-fixed-high-severity-vulnerability/ (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2022-52203 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-2022-4950)Record last updated .