CVE-2022-36340 — Unauthenticated Optin Campaign Cache Deletion vulnerability in MailOptin plugin

Unauthenticated Optin Campaign Cache Deletion vulnerability in MailOptin plugin <= 1.2.49.0 at WordPress.

01What is this vulnerability?

Unauthenticated Optin Campaign Cache Deletion vulnerability in MailOptin plugin <= 1.2.49.0 at WordPress.

02Affected products

Vendor	Product	Versions
MailOptin Popup Builder Team	MailOptin (WordPress plugin)	<= 1.2.49.0

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: 2022-09-23T18:31:50.762Z
• Last modified: 2025-02-20T20:01:04.920Z

09References

• patchstack.com — https://patchstack.com/database/vulnerability/mailoptin/wordpress-mailoptin-plug…
• plugins.svn.wordpress.org — https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/mailoptin/trunk/changelog.txt