Cyber Resilience

CVE-2022-45852

Medium

Published: 24 April 2024

Published
24 April 2024
Modified
28 April 2026
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:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
EPSS Score 0.0037 59.2th percentile
Risk Priority 13 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2022-45852 is a medium-severity Path Traversal (CWE-22) vulnerability. Its CVSS base score is 6.5 (Medium).

Operationally, ranked in the top 40.8% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal') vulnerability in FormAssembly / Drew Buschhorn WP-FormAssembly allows Path Traversal.This issue affects WP-FormAssembly: from n/a through 2.0.5.

CWE(s)
CWE-22

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.

SI-10 Information Input Validation
addresses: CWE-22

Validates pathnames and filenames to prevent traversal outside intended directories.

References