CVE-2022-29447 — Authenticated (administrator or higher user role) Local File Inclusion (LFI) vul

Authenticated (administrator or higher user role) Local File Inclusion (LFI) vulnerability in Wow-Company's Hover Effects plugin <= 2.1 at WordPress.

01What is this vulnerability?

Authenticated (administrator or higher user role) Local File Inclusion (LFI) vulnerability in Wow-Company's Hover Effects plugin <= 2.1 at WordPress.

02Affected products

Vendor	Product	Versions
Wow-Company	Hover Effects	easily create any hover effect (WordPress plugin) — <= 2.1

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: 2022-05-20T20:17:03.216Z
• Last modified: 2025-02-20T20:21:18.879Z

09References

• wordpress.org — https://wordpress.org/plugins/hover-effects/#developers
• patchstack.com — https://patchstack.com/database/vulnerability/hover-effects/wordpress-hover-effe…