Cyber Resilience

CVE-2022-45830

Medium

Published: 02 January 2025

Published
02 January 2025
Modified
05 June 2025
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score v3.1 6.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L
EPSS Score 0.0039 60.7th percentile
Risk Priority 13 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2022-45830 is a medium-severity Missing Authorization (CWE-862) vulnerability in Analytify Analytify - Google Analytics Dashboard. Its CVSS base score is 6.5 (Medium).

Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Exploit Public-Facing Application (T1190); ranked in the top 39.3% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

The strongest mitigations our analysis identified are NIST 800-53 AC-3 (Access Enforcement) and AC-14 (Permitted Actions Without Identification or Authentication).

Deeper analysis

CVE-2022-45830 is a Missing Authorization vulnerability (CWE-862) in the Analytify WordPress plugin. This issue affects Analytify versions from n/a through 4.2.3 and carries a CVSS v3.1 base score of 6.5 (AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L), indicating medium severity with network accessibility, low attack complexity, and no privileges or user interaction required.

Unauthenticated attackers can exploit this vulnerability remotely. Successful exploitation results in low impacts to integrity and availability, with no confidentiality impact, as reflected in the CVSS vector.

The Patchstack advisory at https://patchstack.com/database/wordpress/plugin/wp-analytify/vulnerability/wordpress-analytify-google-analytics-dashboard-plugin-4-2-3-privilege-escalation?_s_id=cve provides details on this privilege escalation vulnerability in the WordPress Analytify Google Analytics Dashboard plugin version 4.2.3.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

Missing Authorization vulnerability in Analytify.This issue affects Analytify: from n/a through 4.2.3.

CWE(s)
CWE-862

Related Threats

MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI

T1190 Exploit Public-Facing Application Initial Access
Adversaries may attempt to exploit a weakness in an Internet-facing host or system to initially access a network.
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T1068 Exploitation for Privilege Escalation Privilege Escalation
Adversaries may exploit software vulnerabilities in an attempt to elevate privileges.
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Why these techniques?

Missing authorization in public-facing WordPress plugin directly enables remote exploitation of the application (T1190) and leads to unauthorized privilege escalation (T1068).

Confidence: HIGH · MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise v18.1

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Affected Assets

analytify
analytify - google analytics dashboard
≤ 4.3.0

Mitigating Controls

Mitigating Controls (NIST 800-53 r5) AI

AC-3 Access Enforcement good match
prevent

Enforces approved authorizations for logical access to system resources, directly addressing the missing authorization vulnerability in the Analytify plugin.

AC-6 Least Privilege partial match
prevent

Employs least privilege to restrict unauthorized users to only necessary access, mitigating the privilege escalation impact of the vulnerability.

AC-14 Permitted Actions Without Identification or Authentication partial match
prevent

Identifies and documents permitted actions without identification or authentication, limiting exposure to unauthenticated exploitation in the plugin.

References