CVE-2022-29445 — Authenticated (administrator or higher role) Local File Inclusion (LFI) vulnerab

Authenticated (administrator or higher role) Local File Inclusion (LFI) vulnerability in Wow-Company's Popup Box plugin <= 2.1.2 at WordPress.

01What is this vulnerability?

Authenticated (administrator or higher role) Local File Inclusion (LFI) vulnerability in Wow-Company's Popup Box plugin <= 2.1.2 at WordPress.

02Affected products

Vendor	Product	Versions
Wow-Company	Popup Box (WordPress plugin)	<= 2.1.2

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

• Patch to a fixed version listed in the vendor advisory (see references below).
• Mitigate with WAF rules, network egress filters, or feature flags where the patch is not yet available.
• Hunt historical logs for exploitation indicators — see Detection signatures below.

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

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07Related CVEs

No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

08Timeline

• Published: 2022-05-18T16:39:54.226Z
• Last modified: 2025-02-20T20:22:33.657Z

09References

• wordpress.org — https://wordpress.org/plugins/popup-box/#developers
• patchstack.com — https://patchstack.com/database/vulnerability/popup-box/wordpress-popup-box-plug…