CVE-2022-45835
Published: 13 November 2023
Summary
CVE-2022-45835 is a medium-severity SSRF (CWE-918) vulnerability in Phonepe Phonepe. Its CVSS base score is 5.8 (Medium).
Operationally, ranked in the top 1.3% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
Deeper analysis
CVE-2022-45835 is a Server-Side Request Forgery vulnerability assigned CWE-918 that affects the PhonePe Payment Solutions WordPress plugin from unknown versions through 1.0.15. The flaw received a CVSS 3.1 score of 5.8 with an attack vector of network, low complexity, no privileges required, and no user interaction, resulting in a changed scope with limited confidentiality impact.
An unauthenticated remote attacker can exploit the issue to make the affected plugin issue arbitrary server-side requests, potentially reaching internal resources or services that would otherwise be inaccessible from the public internet.
Public advisories published via Patchstack document the vulnerability in the PhonePe Payment Solutions plugin and are available at the listed reference URLs. The EPSS score stands at 0.7108 with an identical recorded peak, indicating sustained but not newly emergent exploitation interest after disclosure.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2022-48689
Vulnerability details
Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) vulnerability in PhonePe PhonePe Payment Solutions.This issue affects PhonePe Payment Solutions: from n/a through 1.0.15.
- CWE(s)
Related Threats
No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.
Affected Assets
Mitigating Controls
Likely Mitigating Controls AI
Per-CVE control mapping for this CVE has not run yet; the list below is derived from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry.
Penetration testing attempts server-side requests to internal resources, identifying SSRF weaknesses for remediation.
Outbound connections to external resources can be monitored and limited at the boundary, reducing SSRF impact.
Validates server-side URLs and resource references to block SSRF attempts.
Detects server-side request forgery through monitoring of unexpected outbound connections.