CVE-2022-40131 — Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in a3rev Software Page View Coun

Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in a3rev Software Page View Count plugin <= 2.5.5 on WordPress allows an attacker to reset the plugin settings.

01What is this vulnerability?

Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in a3rev Software Page View Count plugin <= 2.5.5 on WordPress allows an attacker to reset the plugin settings.

02Affected products

Vendor	Product	Versions
a3rev Software	Page View Count (WordPress plugin)	<= 2.5.5

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: 2022-11-03T19:26:22.217Z
• Last modified: 2025-02-20T19:57:03.822Z

09References

• patchstack.com — https://patchstack.com/database/vulnerability/page-views-count/wordpress-page-vi…
• wordpress.org — https://wordpress.org/plugins/page-views-count/#developers